2022 Senate Bill 841

Appropriations: Department of Transportation

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 20, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-23 Department of Transportation budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 3, 2022

Amendment offered

To increase the amounts authorized in several dozen specified line-items.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Transportation budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2022. This would appropriate $6.311 billion of which $2.306 billion is federal money.

Received in the House

May 4, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 18, 2022

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 48 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "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.

Received in the Senate

May 19, 2022

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Received in the House

May 24, 2022