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

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. Appropriations for FY 2026-2027 from the primary road fund include appropriations for transportation operations, utility services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, transportation maps, inventory and equipment replacement, the statewide interoperability network, major facility maintenance and enhancement, routine facility maintenance and preservation, and the Alton maintenance garage. The bill provides that an FY 2023-2024 appropriation for replacement of the Davenport highway operations complex will remain available until the close of FY 2027-2028.