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• . >> I was told people were killed. ...because there were flowers up to the side road, and sometimes

Bills: SB42, SB166, SB42, SB166

Keywords: abandoned roads, land ownership, government regulations, property rights, transportation, Ten Commandments, public education, displays, funding, Alabama law, municipal elections, runoff elections, majority voting, electoral procedures, local governance, campaign finance, record retention, political action committees, Fair Campaign Practices Act, 1136

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• Actually, those are the only roads that you can actually put those on.
• Whoever has adopted their ordinance at the local level, obviously, they can double those.
• At the local level, obviously, they can double those. So they're taking that all away. Mr.

Bills: HB1053

Keywords: North Dakota highway system, state roads, road mileage cap, transportation code, Department of Transportation, DOT, highway mileage limit, road classification, county roads, township roads, state highway network, Century Code section 24-01-01.2, infrastructure, public roads, transportation policy, 908, all

Summary: The committee took up House Bill 1298 and first discussed an amendment from Senator Paulson that would add variable electronic speed limit signs to the bill while leaving the 80-mile-an-hour provision unchanged. Members said the signs would be used on interstates I-29 and I-94 in selected problem areas, based on weather or accident conditions, and that the proposal would not require a fiscal note. The discussion then broadened to Senator Rummel’s concerns about related bills, especially 2243, 1250, and 1229. He argued that the House changes were removing municipal authority to double fines, lowering or eliminating points for serious traffic violations, and undoing prior Senate positions. Several members said they were willing to use HB 1298 as the vehicle to restore the earlier fine and point provisions, including the 29 violations previously assigned three points, and to avoid concurring with the House versions. Members did not take final action on the amendments or the bill. Instead, they agreed more work was needed and asked Legislative Council to prepare a combined amendment and options for the next meeting. The committee recessed and scheduled further discussion for the next morning.

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• that one of our SEALs was on the road that one of our SEALs was on the road and<00:05:16.400>
• Our seals were out and on the road.
• local partnerships to work effectively. local partnerships to work effectively.
• <01:09:44.159> Local<01:09:44.560> jails locally operated facility.
• Local jails locally operated facility.

Bills: HF3700, HF3982, HF3927, HF3933, HF3949, HF4238, HF4275, HF4476, HF4504

Keywords: Duluth, Lake Superior Zoo, capital improvements, funding, bonds, appropriations, capital investment, port development, grant caps, state assistance, navigation facilities, Dakota County, state bonds, park improvements, infrastructure, transportation, safety, congestion, water infrastructure, bond issuance

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• practices utility providers and local practices utility providers and local municipalities<00:05
• with local regional contractors and companies who hire local workers—workers who live in our own communities
• <00:19:26.679> Minnesota approach in using local Minnesota approach in using local Minnesota
• energy utilities state and local energy utilities state and local officials<00:46:12.440> uh<
• to keep or enh jobs increase the local to keep or enh jobs increase the local tax<01:31:26.199><

Bills: HF47, HF335

Keywords: telecommunications, installation, certification, safety, underground utilities, HF335, Greater Minnesota, economic development, public infrastructure, grant program, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, business development, infrastructure grants, local government aid, general fund appropriation, rural development, site development, utilities, roads

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• roads.
• The study will cover five county road systems: the ex-officio road commissioner system, the road commissioner
• system, the road superintendent system, the County Road Department system, and the Road Supervisory
• RMAs to backstop loans for bonds for local government road projects, both toll and non-toll, may sound
• This would unfairly target toll road users to pay for other toll roads and ...free roads elsewhere that

Bills: HB1589, HB2208, HB2297, HB2560, HB2725, HB3080, HB4417, HB4473, HB4520, HB4662, HB4888, HB4905, HB4906

Keywords: HB 1589, toll road, toll project, toll project entity, voter approval, local control, county election, commissioners court, Transportation Code, Chapter 372, road construction, highway funding, infrastructure, public referendum, ballot measure, transportation policy, Texas toll roads, regional mobility, toll collection, vehicle registration

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• Additionally, a community can only bring this issue to voters once every five years. limiting local control
• negotiate with this until after the election concluded, further showing how the current system restricts local
• support HB Many of you, like Chairman Canales, have been champions over the years. years to ensure that local

Bills: HB483, HB3345, HB3643, HB3821, HB3849, HB4472, HB4523, HB4524, HB5346, HB5347, HB5376

Keywords: high-speed rail, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT, public-private partnership, comprehensive development agreement, CDA, Interstate 35, I-35 corridor, Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, intercity passenger rail, rail infrastructure, private entity, transportation infrastructure, rail corridor, passenger rail, infrastructure finance, vehicle registration

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• A toll road that is on a road already can simply arrange for the alternate routes not to be maintained
• HB5347 seeks to resolve this issue of limiting or eliminating free road access when toll roads are built
• to functioning city streets or rural roads.
• It's almost all the local toll entities that do.
• option from a freeway to a frontage road.

Bills: HB483, HB3345, HB3643, HB3821, HB3849, HB4472, HB4523, HB4524, HB5346, HB5347, HB5376

Keywords: high-speed rail, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT, public-private partnership, comprehensive development agreement, CDA, Interstate 35, I-35 corridor, Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, intercity passenger rail, rail infrastructure, private entity, transportation infrastructure, rail corridor, passenger rail, infrastructure finance, vehicle registration

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• We're looking at somewhere down the road they may know a little more about this, but given what we know
• from Cushing, Oklahoma, to Oklahoma City every day, there's still carcasses of deer up and down the roads
• And if you are asking, which I did too, do we have something similar in nature to a local food council
• So this is different in nature as it looks at how we look at taking care of our local food producers
• as this in place, we would have had a more fundamental way for us to educate our Oklahomans about local

Bills: SB2108, SB2121, SB2171, SB2061, SB2112, SB2138

Keywords: feral swine, nuisance control, wildlife management, hunting permits, agriculture, cultivated meat, food safety, public health, misbranding, advertising, food labeling, food distribution, state regulations, hunting licenses, fishing licenses, veterans, controlled hunts, deer population, wildlife conservation, food policy

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• And we're going to do it with local labor.
• And we're going to do it<00:40:08.800> with<00:40:09.040> local<00:40:09.680> uh
• <00:40:10.560> We're<00:40:10.720> going<00:40:10.800> to it with local uh labor
• We're going to it with local uh labor.

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• impacts those with lower incomes and those who drive less, and therefore have the lowest impact on roads
• If we want to increase funding for roads, we can increase both of them by the same percentage.
• In all those regions, decision makers are accountable only to local voters, as it should be.
• The legislature generally doesn't force other local governments seeking state help for the project to
• We'll talk more on the House floor, but I would like to just say that it does make our roads safer.

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• Earlier this year, I sold our old roads.
• , reasons to not buy an EV down the road, reasons to not buy an EV down the road, we<00:10:31.760
• But I would like to just say that it does make our roads safer.
• Uh we that it does make our roads safer.
• Um smarter on how we maintain our roads.

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• :32:31.519> wetland local government road wetland local government road wetland replacement<00
• and the local road and bridge programs.
• road improvement program, the local bridge program, and the local road wetland improvement program.
• The local road improvement program, the local bridge replacement program on page 11, and the local road
• The local road improvement program, the local bridge replacement program on page 11, and the local road

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• the state road the state road appropriation<00:07:20.960> and<00:07:21.120> that's
• Uh then following to state road Uh then following to state road construction<00:07:55.360> on
• Uh then for state road program.
• Then you can see two one-time appropriations for other local roads on lines 165 and 166 for the local
• road program and the local bridge program. cascades to the trunk highway fund and cascades to the trunk

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• This is our local economy. Our owners. This is our local economy.
• <00:36:28.000> government<00:36:28.320> road<00:36:28.640> wetland local government
• road wetland local government road wetland replacement<00:36:29.680> program,<00:36:30.480>
• West, Warren Avenue, and Black Lake Road, representing about an annual local investment of $6.5 million
• Lake<01:03:07.680> Road, Avenue, and Black Lake Road, Avenue, and Black Lake Road, representing

Bills: HF4680, HF4047, HF4590, HF3757, HF3569, HF4507, HF4426, HF4927, HF4788, HF4757, HF4747, HF3561, HF4014, HF4013, HF4689, HF4766, HF4589

Keywords: wastewater treatment, improvements, capital investment, Greenfield, bonds, water treatment, infrastructure, municipal funding, state bonds, public utilities, HF4590, Tamarack, municipal infrastructure, bonding bill, general obligation bonds, Public Facilities Authority, sewer system, collection system, street reconstruction, local infrastructure

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• The far-left structure there is a local road passing underneath that free-flow ramp, and then the structure
• How's a road to $8.2 million to complete the house of road improvement project how to house a road is
• roads.
• Some of them travel very far distances on dirt roads, gravel roads, and roads that have not been cared
• Point Road.

Bills: HB2067, HB2068, HB2127, HB2164, HB2200, HB2201, HB2242, HB2283, HB2284, HB2285, HB2286, HB2287, HB2304, HB2306, HB2399, HB2601, HB2609, HB2760, HB2761, HB2859, HB2887, HB2892, HB2893, HB2894, HB2978, HB4027, HCM2012, HCM2016

Keywords: appropriation, transportation, infrastructure, Apache Junction, funding, Show Low, road extension, special license plates, nonprofits, charitable contributions, Reay Lane, Graham County, HB 2200, State Route 89, SR 89, Chino Valley, Arizona Department of Transportation, ADOT, road widening, highway expansion

Summary: The committee heard an ADOT presentation on Interstate 11, SR 347, the I-10 Wild Horse Pass corridor, and the I-40/US 93 West Kingman project. ADOT said the I-11 corridor remains under a federal lawsuit covering the full 280-mile route from Mexico to Nevada, with a Tier 1 reevaluation underway and public outreach expected later in the year, concluding in early 2027. ADOT said segmentation of the corridor would add time and cost, and that current work is limited to pre-NOI Tier 2 activities and other allowed planning steps. For SR 347, ADOT described widening, intersection upgrades, two grade separations, and a schedule that could begin construction in summer pending clearances. For I-10, ADOT outlined four widening projects adding a third lane each way, interchange reconstructions, a new interchange at Coley Road, and corridor-wide freeway management systems, with completion expected by late 2029. For the West Kingman I-40/US 93 project, ADOT said the $106.5 million project is about 60% complete and should finish in early 2027; members asked about temporary traffic control near Beale Street and possible additional signage or signals on the corridor. Members also raised local traffic and safety concerns on the SR 347 and I-10 projects, including signal timing, median barriers, construction hours, truck traffic, and the need for clearer driver education and digital signs. ADOT said it would look into signal optimization, possible temporary fixes, and additional signage, and noted the I-10 corridor total cost is just under $1 billion, funded through a mix of MAG, federal, and state money. On I-40, members also discussed a possible temporary traffic light near Beale Street to improve safety and access. The committee then moved to a series of transportation appropriation bills and announced a mass-motion process for the projects. Staff explained HB 2067 for Apache Junction ($29.4 million), HB 2068 for the Wolford Road extension in Show Low ($6.5 million), HB 2164 for Ray Lane improvements in Graham County ($3.73 million), HB 2200 for SR 89 widening in Chino Valley ($36 million, contingent on a $1 million local commitment), HB 2201 for Sedona SR 89A/Forest Road/Ranger Road projects ($8.03 million), and HB 2304, the ARTEC bill, which appropriates about $473 million for multiple highway projects statewide. Witnesses from Show Low, Eloy, Coolidge, Casa Grande, Lake Havasu City, Clarkdale, San Luis, Yuma, and Yavapai County testified in support of their local projects, emphasizing congestion relief, freight movement, emergency evacuation, safety, economic development, and local matching funds. No final votes were taken in the portion provided; the chair indicated the committee would proceed with a mass motion on the project bills after testimony.

Bills: HB393, HB61, SB234, SB234

Keywords: entertainment district, alcohol consumption, local governance, city council, public spaces, home school, career and technical education, public schools, K-12 education, enrollment policy, Cherokee County, off-road vehicle park, ORV park, ATV, all-terrain vehicle, dirt bike, off-highway vehicle, recreational vehicle, county permit, inspection

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• If the landowner owns both sides of the road, or if both landowners on both sides of the road agree,
• then they can petition the local government to get back that...
• The local government can be petitioned to get back that easement.
• It's simply if we have an abandoned road... ...simply, if we have an abandoned road like Highway 64 through
• Well, that old road is going through this farmer's field.

Bills: SB42, HB323

Keywords: abandoned roads, land ownership, government regulations, property rights, transportation, electric utility, oversize vehicles, transport permits, state highway system, 1136, house, all

Bills: SB303, SB303

Keywords: education, principal leadership, mentoring, high-poverty schools, professional development, off-road vehicles, public roads, registration, liability insurance, age requirement, traffic regulations, 1136, house, all

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• By providing clear direction to both local governments and TCEQ, this bill promotes responsible land
• This is a list of over 2000 of these flood control structures that are regulated by local sponsors, which
• The local districts and the state soil and water board provide money for rehabilitation, but we're trying
• the district lacks authority and structured, uh, procedures to collaborate with the counties, uh, on road

Bills: SB 612, SB 1855, SB 2568, SB 3058

Keywords: SB 612, Texas Water Code, Section 49.2127, conservation and reclamation district, water district, reclamation district, developer fees, pipeline construction, water pipeline, sewer pipeline, associated infrastructure, subdivision infrastructure, cost recovery, fee cap, actual reasonable documented costs, engineering fees, legal fees, inspection fees, infrastructure relocation, utility connections

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• bill that addresses vagueness and closes loopholes that exist in Chapters 232 and 233 of the Texas Local
• It also prohibits counties from requiring a setback of more than 25 feet from a road right-of-way that
• They've changed the road widths and made other adjustments.
• Why did they want to expand the road size then?
• In my district, it has the powers of bond, it has the powers of road and water infrastructure.

Bills: SB840, HB2025, HB2512, HB3139, HB3798, HB3892, HB4373, HB4398, HB4582, HB4689, HB5187, HB5658, HB5666

Keywords: HB 2025, Texas Property Code, plat filing, replat, amended plat, condominium plat, subdivision, county clerk, tax certificate, ad valorem taxes, delinquent taxes, property records, real property, land use, local government, property development, subdivision recording, condominium recording, tax receipt, eminent domain