appropriation; State Route 89A projects

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details about how ADOT will choose which parts of the roads to fix or build.

Money for Road Projects

This bill gives $8,025,600 from the state's money to fix and build roads in Sedona.

What This Bill Does

• Appropriates $8,025,600 from the state General Fund for fiscal year 2026-2027 to ADOT to distribute to the City of Sedona for State Route 89A, Forest Road and Ranger Road construction and improvement projects.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who live or travel through Sedona
• The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
• The City of Sedona

Terms To Know

Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)

A state agency that takes care of roads, bridges, and other transportation in Arizona.

General Fund

The main pot of money the state uses to pay for different things like schools, hospitals, and road projects.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how ADOT will distribute or use the funds.
• Does not address what happens if there is insufficient funding in the General Fund after this appropriation.

Official Summary Text

HB2201 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

HB
2201
: appropriation; State Route 89A projects

Sponsor:
Representative Bliss, LD 1

Committee
on Transportation & Infrastructure

Overview

Appropriates
$8,025,600 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona
Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute to the City of Sedona for
State Route 89A, Forest Road and Ranger Road construction and improvement
projects.

History

Laws 1973, Chapter 146
established
ADOT to provide for an integrated and balanced state transportation system with
a director responsible for the Department's administration (
A.R.S. � 28-331
).
ADOT has exclusive control and jurisdiction over state highways,
state routes, state-owned airports and all state-owned transportation systems
or modes.

The
duties of ADOT are as follows: 1) register motor vehicles and aircraft, license
drivers, collect revenues, enforce motor vehicle and aviation statutes and
perform related functions; 2) do multimodal state transportation planning,
cooperate and coordinate transportation planning with local governments and
establish an annually updated priority program of capital improvements for all
transportation modes; 3) design and construct transportation facilities in
accordance with a priority plan and maintain and operate state
highways, state owned airports and state public transportation
systems; 4) investigate new transportation systems and cooperate with and
advise local governments concerning the development and operation of public
transit systems; 5) have administrative jurisdiction of transportation safety
programs and implement them following applicable law; and 6) operate a state
motor vehicle fleet for all motor vehicles that are owned, leased or rented by
this state (
A.R.S.
� 28- 332
).

Provisions

1.

Appropriates
$8,025,600 from the GF in FY 2027 to ADOT to distribute the City of Sedona for
State Route 89A, Forest Road and Ranger Road construction and improvement
projects. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2201 - 572R - I Ver

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REFERENCE TITLE:
appropriation; State Route 89A projects

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2201

Introduced by

Representative
Bliss

AN
ACT

APPROPRIATING monies to the department of
TRANSPORTATION.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.
Appropriation;
department of transportation; State Route 89A, Forest Road and Ranger Road

The sum of $8,025,600 is appropriated
from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the department of
transportation to distribute to the city of Sedona for State Route 89A, Forest
Road and Ranger Road construction and improvement projects.