{"id":141389,"date":"2021-03-26T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141389"},"modified":"2021-03-26T23:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:54:19","slug":"ohio-legislators-ok-transportation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/26\/ohio-legislators-ok-transportation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio legislators OK transportation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio House of Representatives concurred late this week with Senate amendments to House Bill 74, the Fiscal Years 2022-2023 Transportation Budget. The budget bill would appropriate approximately $4.33 billion in Fiscal Year 2022 and $4.04 billion in Fiscal Year 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is important to support Ohio\u2019s transportation industries so that existing projects can be improved and new ones can occur,\u201d said State Representative Craig Riedel (R-Defiance), who voted for the legislation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the agreed upon bill, approximate agency appropriations over the biennium are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$6.5 billion to the Ohio Department of Transportation, which supports infrastructure, highways, roads, bridge construction and maintenance, and public transportation<\/li><li>$1.4 billion to the Department of Public Safety (DPS), including $50 million in each fiscal year to the Ohio State Highway Patrol<\/li><li>$119 million to the Public Works Commission (PWC) Local Transportation Improvement Program<\/li><li>$30 million to the Development Services Agency (DSA) Roadwork Development Grant Program<\/li><li>FY 2022 appropriations for ODOT include about $333 million in stimulus funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act passed by Congress in December 2020<\/li><li>$126 million of this funding will be provided to local governments to cover lost revenue from pandemic travel restrictions<\/li><li>ODOT will dedicate approximately $60 million in FY 2022 and 2023 to major new projects through the Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Transportation Budget now heads to the desk of the governor for a signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio House of Representatives concurred late this week with Senate amendments to House Bill 74, the Fiscal Years 2022-2023 Transportation Budget. The budget bill would appropriate approximately $4.33 billion in Fiscal Year 2022 and $4.04 billion in Fiscal Year 2023.&nbsp; \u201cIt is important to support Ohio\u2019s transportation industries so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:38:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}