ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

HB2893: appropriation; Navajo Nation; transportation projects

Sponsor: Representative Tsosie, LD 6

Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

Overview

Appropriates $36,029,500 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute to the Navajo Division of Transportation for various transportation projects.

History

Laws 1973, Chapter 146 established ADOT to provide for an integrated and balanced state transportation system with a director responsible for the Department's administration (A.R.S. § 28-331). ADOT has exclusive control and jurisdiction over state highways, state routes, state-owned airports and all state-owned transportation systems or modes.

The duties of ADOT are as follows: 1) register motor vehicles and aircraft, license drivers, collect revenues, enforce motor vehicle and aviation statutes and perform related functions; 2) do multimodal state transportation planning, cooperate and coordinate transportation planning with local governments and establish an annually updated priority program of capital improvements for all transportation modes; 3) design and construct transportation facilities in accordance with a priority plan and maintain and operate state highways, state owned airports and state public transportation systems; 4) investigate new transportation systems and cooperate with and advise local governments concerning the development and operation of public transit systems; 5) have administrative jurisdiction of transportation safety programs and implement them following applicable law; and 6) operate a state motor vehicle fleet for all motor vehicles that are owned, leased or rented by this state (A.R.S. § 28- 332).

Provisions

1. Appropriates amounts from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOT to distribute to the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation as follows:

a. $32,056,900 for graveling and chip sealing and raising the roadway of and for drainage improvements to Navajo Route 8090;

b. $3,184,300 for grading, graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo Route 8070; and

c. $788,300 for grading, graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo Route 8009. (Sec. 1)

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