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, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund

This bill makes appropriations from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund to the department of transportation (DOT). Appropriations for FY 2025-2026 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 2025-2026 from the primary road fund include appropriations for transportation operations, utility services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, inventory and equipment replacement, the statewide interoperability network, major facility maintenance and enhancement, routine facility maintenance and preservation, and renovation of the Waterloo maintenance garage.145 relating to the disposition of moneys from the statutory allocations fund (SAF). Under current law, revenues derived from trailer registration fees, fees charged for driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, fees charged for commercial driver’s license driving skills tests, fees charged for the issuance of a certificate of title, the certificate of title surcharge, revenues derived from the imposition of a use tax on vehicles subject only to the issuance of a certificate of title and manufactured housing, and revenues arising from automobile rental excise taxes are deposited in the SAF.34 relating to special registration plate fees. Any revenues remaining in the SAF are credited to the road use tax fund. The bill provides a standing appropriation from the SAF to the DOT for an amount necessary for the payment of costs associated with producing and distributing driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, not to exceed SAF revenues derived from fees charged for driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards. By operation of law, unused moneys from the appropriation would revert to the SAF and be credited to the road use tax fund in accordance with current law. In previous fiscal years, the general assembly annually appropriated moneys from the road use tax fund to the DOT for the payment of costs associated with the production of driver’s licenses.