Committee advances bill to let Route 66 Commission sign MOUs, hire project manager

A committee voted to advance SB 2155, an update to the Route 66 Commission and its grant program that would permit the commission to enter memoranda of understanding with state agencies and hire a project manager to keep projects on schedule.

Representative Lawson, the bill sponsor, said the change was intended to allow the commission to enter into MOUs with state agencies and primarily to hire a project manager because “there’s a lot of projects in play, making sure that those stay on time.”

Members asked no substantive follow-up questions. The committee moved to pass the bill; staff recorded the vote as 3 ayes and 1 nay and the chair declared SB 2155 passed in committee.

The transcript does not include the proposed bill language or budgetary details for hiring a project manager; those items are not specified in the committee record provided.