2004 House Bill 5528 ↩
House Roll Call 203:
Passed
The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.295 billion in adjusted gross spending, all of which is state road tax and federal money, compared to $3.136 billion, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. The House version authorizes approximately $2.5 million more spending than the governor recommended. The House does not include funding for recommended by the governor to replace road design and engineering work now contracted out to private-sector firms with 126 new government employees.