appropriation; Navajo Nation; transportation projects

Plain English Breakdown

The exact total amount ($36,029,500) was rounded to $36 million in the summary for readability.

HB2893: Funding for Navajo Nation Road Projects

This bill sets aside about $36 million from the state budget in fiscal year 2027 to improve three specific roads on the Navajo Nation.

What This Bill Does

• Sets aside money from the Arizona General Fund for fiscal year 2027 for road work.
• Gives funds to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute them.
• Directs ADOT to send the money to the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation.
• Pays for graveling, chip sealing, grading, stabilizing, raising roadways, and drainage fixes on three specific routes.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
• The Navajo Nation Division of Transportation
• Drivers who use Navajo Routes 8090, 8070, and 8009

Terms To Know

Appropriation

The official act of setting aside money from the government budget for a specific use.

General Fund

The main account where Arizona keeps most tax revenue to pay for state services.

Limits and Unknowns

• Funding is limited to fiscal year 2026-2027; no money is set aside for future years.
• The text does not say when the construction work will start or finish.
• Chip sealing applies only to Navajo Route 8090, while grading and stabilizing apply to Routes 8070 and 8009.

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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Current Bill Text

HB2893 - 572R - I Ver

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.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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.