A House committee on an early-morning session voted to pass the Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 425, a reauthorization measure that covers 423 capital outlay projects previously authorized in prior years.

The substitute, offered as the Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 425 and presented to the committee, reauthorizes projects to extend their reversion dates, to expand or change project purpose, or to change the administrative agency responsible for the funds. The presenter said the estimated balance across the projects listed in the bill was $262,700,000 as of January 2025 and that the substitute would generally extend each project's reversion date by two years.

“It reauthorizes 423 capital outlay projects that have been authorized in previous years from various funds,” the bill presenter said, adding that projects may be reauthorized to extend the reversion date, change purpose or administrative agency and that committee members had been provided a chart listing projects by county.

Representative Lundstrom asked whether projects were automatically reauthorized or whether communities request reauthorization. A staff speaker responding for Legislative Council Service said legislators should still be signing off on projects included in the bill, or the governor when a project was sponsored by the governor. On notifying multiple sponsors, the staff speaker said LCS generally tries to notify other sponsors if only one sponsor requested reauthorization.

Representative Duncan asked what the two-year extension meant in practice. The presenter replied that the extension is two years from this year, taking reversion dates up to 2027.

After brief questions and no public comment, a motion to “do pass” the substitute was made and the committee chair stated the substitute passed with no opposition. The chair then declared to the bill sponsor, “Mister Jair, you have a bill.”

The committee record shows the substitute was advanced; the transcript does not specify the roll-call vote tally or any recorded no votes or abstentions.