Official Summary Text
HB2893 - 572R - House Bill Summary
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session
Majority Research Staff
HB2893
:
appropriation; Navajo Nation; transportation projects
Sponsor:
Representative Tsosie, LD 6
Committee
on Transportation & Infrastructure
Overview
Appropriates
$36,029,500 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona
Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute to the Navajo Division of
Transportation for various transportation 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
amounts from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOT to distribute to the Navajo Nation
Division of Transportation as follows:
a.
$32,056,900
for graveling and chip sealing and raising the roadway of and for drainage
improvements to Navajo Route 8090;
b.
$3,184,300
for grading, graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo
Route 8070; and
c.
$788,300 for
grading, graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo
Route 8009. (Sec. 1)
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REFERENCE TITLE:
appropriation; Navajo Nation; transportation projects
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HB 2893
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; Navajo Nation division of transportation;
transportation projects
The following amounts are appropriated
from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the department of
transportation to distribute to the Navajo Nation division of transportation
for the following projects:
1. $32,056,900 for
graveling and chip sealing and raising the roadway of and for drainage
improvements to Navajo Route 8090.
2. $3,184,300 for grading,
graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo Route 8070.
3. $788,300 for grading,
graveling and stabilizing and for drainage improvements to Navajo Route 8009.