Road funding

Current understanding

How Michigan pays for road and bridge repair — taxes, bonding, budget fights.

Evidence log

• 2026-08-26 — Transportation: funds; local agency infrastructure disaster relief fund and board; create. Amends secs. 10 & 11 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660 & 247.661) & adds sec. 11k.: House bill (introduced) amends secs. 10 & 11 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660 & 247.661) and adds sec. 11k to create a Local Agency Infrastructure Disaster Relief Fund and board within Michigan’s transportation-fund law. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-05-13 — Transportation: funds; population threshold for certain grants; increase. Amends secs. 10e & 13c of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660e & 247.663c).: SB957 (introduced) amends secs. 10e and 13c of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660e & 247.663c) to raise the population threshold determining eligibility for certain transportation grants; appears to be a Senate counterpart to HB6129’s identical amendments. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-04-29 — Transportation: funds; maintenance of nonmotorized transportation infrastructure; provide for. Amends sec. 10k of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660k).: SB265 (introduced) amends sec. 10k of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660k) to provide for maintenance of nonmotorized transportation infrastructure under Michigan’s transportation funding law. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-13 — Transportation: motor fuel tax; gas tax holiday; provide for. Amends secs. 8 & 152 of 2000 PA 403 (MCL 207.1008 & 207.1152).: HB5966 (introduced) amends secs. 8 and 152 of 2000 PA 403 (MCL 207.1008 & 207.1152) to provide a temporary motor fuel gas tax holiday; parallels HB6147’s similar amendments to the same sections. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-03 — Transportation: funds; allocation of federal funding; modify. Amends sec. 10o of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660o).: HB6037 (introduced) amends sec. 10o of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660o) to modify how federal transportation funding is allocated. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-29 — Marihuana: taxation; comprehensive road funding tax act; repeal.: HB6224 (introduced) would repeal Michigan’s comprehensive road funding tax act tied to marihuana taxation, unwinding a marijuana-tax-linked road funding mechanism. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-04 — Highways: other; abandonment of certain roads; modify. Amends sec. 18 of 1909 PA 283 (MCL 224.18).: 2026 — HB6045 (introduced) amends MCL 224.18 of 1909 PA 283 to modify road abandonment procedures; companion to HB6044’s parallel change to MCL 247.190. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-04 — Highways: other; failing to remove an obstruction in the right of way; prohibit from being used as evidence of abandonment. Amends sec. 20 of 1925 PA 368 (MCL 247.190).: 2026 — Highways: other; failing to remove an obstruction in the right of way; prohibit from being used as evidence of abandonment. Amends sec. 20 of 1925 PA 368 (MCL 247.190).: HB6044 (introduced) amends MCL 247.190 to prohibit a property owner’s failure to remove a right-of-way obstruction from being used as evidence of highway abandonment. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-11 — Sales tax: distribution; reporting and earmark of auto-related sales tax for the comprehensive transportation fund; provide for. Amends secs. 6 & 25 of 1933 PA 167 (MCL 205.56 & 205.75) & adds sec. 18a.: HB6079 (introduced) amends secs. 6 and 25 of 1933 PA 167 (MCL 205.56 & 205.75) and adds sec. 18a to earmark auto-related sales tax revenues for the Comprehensive Transportation Fund, changing reporting and distribution of those revenues. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-18 — Transportation: funds; road funding allocation for a local unit of government hosting an international airport; modify. Amends secs. 12 & 13 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.622 & 247.663): HB6115 (introduced) amends secs. 12 and 13 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.622 & 247.663) to modify road funding allocation for local units of government that host an international airport (House companion/parallel to SB1074). (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-24 — Transportation: funds; road funding allocation for a local unit of government hosting an international airport; modify. Amends secs. 12 & 13 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.662 & 247.663).: SB1074 (introduced) amends secs. 12 and 13 of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.662 & 247.663) to modify the road funding allocation formula for a local unit of government that hosts an international airport. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-19 — Traffic control: driver license; instruction in work zone safety; require. Amends secs. 309 & 310e of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.309 & 257.310e) & adds sec. 309a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5767’26: HB5768 (introduced) amends secs. 309 and 310e of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.309 & 257.310e) and adds sec. 309a to require work zone safety instruction as part of driver license education; tie-barred to HB5767. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-24 — Transportation: funds; population threshold for certain grants; increase. Amends secs. 10e & 13c of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660e & 247.663c): HB6129 (introduced) amends secs. 10e and 13c of 1951 PA 51 (MCL 247.660e & 247.663c) to increase the population threshold for eligibility for certain transportation grants. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-30 — Transportation: motor fuel tax; gas tax holiday; provide for. Amends secs. 8 & 152 of 2000 PA 403 (MCL 207.1008 & 207.1152). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6146’26: HB6147 (introduced) amends MCL 207.1008 and 207.1152 of the Motor Fuel Tax Act to provide a temporary gas tax holiday; tie-barred to HB6146. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-30 — State finance: budgets; distribution of the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund; make subject to section 8 of the motor fuel tax act. Amends sec. 352 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1352). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6147’26: HB6146 (introduced) amends MCL 18.1352 to make distribution of the Countercyclical Budget and Economic Stabilization Fund subject to Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Act; tie-barred to HB6147. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-03 — Counties: boards and commissions; requirement for competitive bidding by county road commissions on certain projects; modify. Amends sec. 10 of 1909 PA 283 (MCL 224.10).: HB4415 (passed chamber) amends MCL 224.10 to modify competitive bidding requirements for county road commissions on certain projects. (novelty: 2)

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