Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" the Department of Transportation budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To require signs placed by the department on road projects boasting that they are "bond financed" to also disclose the estimated cost of this government borrowing.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend more on local rail grade separation and freeway soundwall grants.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
The House version of the Department of Transportation budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $5.385 billion of which $1.448 billion is federal money.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)
To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.
Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.
