HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
REP. PAT OUTMAN
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Noon.
Room 519, House Office
Building
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure was called to order by Chair Outman.
The Chair requested attendance to be called:
Present: Reps. Outman, Alexander, Carra, Kunse, Neyer, Prestin, Bohnak, Frisbie, Wortz,
Herzberg, Hope, Koleszar, Andrews and Miller.
Absent: Reps. Bruck, Grant and Wilson.
Excused: Reps. Bruck, Grant and Wilson.
Representative Neyer moved to adopt the meeting minutes from June 03, 2025. There being no
objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent.
The Chair laid HB 4415 before the committee:
HB 4415
(Rep. Kuhn)
A bill to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled "An act
to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws
relating to the establishment, opening,
discontinuing, vacating, closing, altering,
improvement, maintenance, and use of the
public highways and private roads; the
condemnation of property and gravel therefor;
the building, repairing and preservation of
bridges; maintaining public access to
waterways under certain conditions; setting
and protecting shade trees, drainage, and
cutting weeds and brush within this state;
providing for the election or appointment and
defining the powers, duties, and compensation
of state, county, township, and district
highway officials; and to prescribe penalties
and provide remedies," by amending section
10 (MCL 224.10), as amended by 2020 PA
286.
Substitute (H-1) to HB 4415 was previously adopted on June 3, 2025.
The following person submitted a card in support of HB 4415, but did not wish to speak:
Samantha Gibson, representing the Michigan Association of Counties.
Representative Alexander moved to report out HB 4415 with recommendation, as substitute (H-1).
The motion prevailed 14-0-0:
FAVORABLE ROLL CALL
Yeas: Reps. Outman, Alexander, Carra, Kunse, Neyer, Prestin, Bohnak, Frisbie, Wortz,
Herzberg, Hope, Koleszar, Andrews and Miller.
Nays: None.
Pass: None.
Chair Outman laid before the committee a presentation by the Reason Foundation. Baruch
Feigenbaum, representing the Reason Foundation, gave a presentation to the committee.
Questions and discussion followed.
Chair Outman laid before the committee a presentation from GeoToll. Dr. Ankur Agarwal and
Tom Gustafson, both representing GeoToll, gave a presentation to the committee. Questions and
discussion followed.
Chair Outman laid before the committee a presentation by the County Road Association of
Michigan. Ed Noyola and Denise Donohue, both representing the County Road Association of
Michigan, gave a presentation to the committee. Questions and discussion followed.
Representative Kunse moved to excuse Representatives Bruck, Grant and Wilson from the
meeting. There being no objection the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
There being no further business before the committee, Chair Outman adjourned the meeting at
1:26 PM.
Representative Pat Outman, Chair
Melissa Sweet
Committee Clerk
msweet@house.mi.gov