HB1105 Summary

• Establishes maximum employee positions and salary limits for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department for fiscal year 2015-2016, with a maximum of 4,932 employees and salaries ranging from $30,010 to $183,935 annually.

• Appropriates $1,983,610,000 from the State Highway and Transportation Department Fund for regular salaries ($188,000,000), personal services matching ($64,000,000), overtime ($9,000,000), maintenance and operations ($245,750,000), professional fees ($60,000,000), capital outlay ($1,321,860,000), and debt service ($95,000,000).

• Appropriates $34,000,000 from the State Aid Road Fund, $30,000,000 from the State Aid Street Fund, $4,600,000 from the Arkansas Public Transit Trust Fund, $200,000,000 for four-lane highway bond repayment, and $3,000,000 for commercial truck safety and education programs.

• Authorizes budget flexibility through transfers of salary and overtime savings to maintenance and operations, personal services matching, or capital outlay upon legislative review and notification to the Director of Finance and Administration.

• Directs the Arkansas Highway Commission to install directional signage referencing the Dyess Colony and Johnny Cash Home projects on Interstate 55 by January 1, 2016, and to provide quarterly expenditure status reports to the Arkansas Legislative Council.