Arizona 2025 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2557 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 02/21/2025

                      	HB 2557 
Initials JB/GG 	Page 1 	Appropriations 
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Fifty-seventh Legislature 
First Regular Session 
 
 
HB 2557: appropriation; State Route 347; widening 
Sponsor: Representative Lopez, LD 16 
Committee on Appropriations 
Overview 
Appropriates $16,291,610 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2026 to the Arizona 
Department of Transportation (ADOT) to widen and improve State Route 347 between 
Interstate 10 and the city of Maricopa.  
History 
Laws 1973, Chapter 146 established the Arizona Department of Transportation (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.  
ADOT is required to: 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 in accordance with 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 $16,291,610 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOT to widen and improve 
State Route 347 between Interstate 10 and the city of Maricopa. (Sec. 1)