SF 2478: Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund

What it does

This bill makes appropriations from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund to the department of transportation. Appropriations for FY 2026-2027 from the road use tax fund include appropriations for transportation operations, motor vehicles, utility services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, county issuance of driver’s licenses and vehicle registration and titling, participation in the Mississippi river parkway commission, the traffic and criminal software program and the mobile architecture and communications handling program, and motor vehicle division field facility maintenance projects and systems modernization.

Senate subcommittee · named March 11, 2026

• Sen. Carrie Koelker (R) · carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Mike Bousselot (R) · mike.bousselot@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against

For: Associated General Contractors of Iowa; Iowa Dept. of Transportation

In plain words

1. March 11, 2026Filed in the Senate and sent to the Appropriations committee · as SSB 3186
2. March 11, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Koelker, Bousselot and Petersen · as SSB 3186
3. March 26, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it · as SSB 3186
4. April 1, 2026Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 2478 · as SSB 3186
5. April 2, 2026Filed in the Senate
6. April 2, 2026Approved by the Senate committee
7. April 27, 2026Passed the Senate, 46–0
8. April 28, 2026Arrived in the House
9. April 29, 2026Approved by the House committee
10. April 29, 2026Committee vote: 16–7
11. May 2, 2026Passed the House, 85–1
12. May 11, 2026Sent to the Governor
13. June 2, 2026Signed into law