appropriation; Fort Defiance; streetlights

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how ADOT will distribute the funds or ensure future maintenance and repairs.

Money for Solar Streetlights in Fort Defiance

This bill gives $3.5 million to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to help install solar streetlights on certain roads in Fort Defiance.

What This Bill Does

• Appropriates $3,500,000 from the state's general fund for fiscal year 2026-2027 to ADOT.
• ADOT will distribute this money to the Fort Defiance Chapter of the Navajo Nation.
• The funds are used to install solar streetlights on BIA Routes N110, N7, and N12 in Fort Defiance.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who live or work near BIA Routes N110, N7, and N12 in Fort Defiance.
• The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).
• The Fort Defiance Chapter of the Navajo Nation.

Terms To Know

Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)

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

BIA Routes

Roads managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs within Native American reservations.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how ADOT will distribute the funds to the Fort Defiance Chapter.
• It is unclear if there are sufficient funds for future maintenance and repairs of these solar streetlights.

Official Summary Text

HB2285 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

HB
2285
: appropriation; Fort Defiance; streetlights

Sponsor:
Representative Tsosie, LD 6

Committee
on Transportation & Infrastructure

Overview

Appropriates
$3,500,000 from the State General Fund (GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona
Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute to the Fort Defiance Chapter
of the Navajo Nation to install solar streetlights on BIA Routes N110, N7 and
N12 in Fort Defiance.

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
$3,500,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOT to distribute to the Fort
Defiance Chapter of the Navajo Nation to install solar streetlights on BIA
Routes N110, N7 and N12 in Fort Defiance. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2285 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
appropriation; Fort Defiance; streetlights

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2285

Introduced by

Representative
Tsosie

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; Fort Defiance; streetlights

The sum of $3,500,000 is appropriated
from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the department of
transportation to distribute to the Fort Defiance chapter of the Navajo Nation
to install solar streetlights on BIA Routes N110, N7 and N12 in Fort Defiance.