SB236

The amendment changes the transfer schedule from "odd-numbered" years to "third" years (shifting the timeline), simplifies the fund's purpose by removing the requirement to allocate moneys back to counties for rural access distribution and instead focusing solely on accounting and safekeeping of unobligated moneys, and makes minor grammatical corrections. This NARROWS the bill by eliminating the redistributive function and making the county and township infrastructure fund primarily a holding mechanism rather than an active distribution vehicle.

This amendment converted the bill from its engrossed legislative form to its enrolled final form, making minor technical edits such as changing a comma to clarify that small structures must be "located on county secondary highways" rather than merely "described in" a plan. The substantive change removes the original deadline requiring counties to obligate or spend moneys by the end of fiscal year 2029, replacing it with a system requiring counties to transfer any unobligated moneys to the state every third year beginning in 2029—BROADENING the effective timeline for local infrastructure spending while establishing ongoing state-level fund management.