the bill were agreed to by the Senate today, and the bill is now headed to the governor's desk.

A Kentucky mother who lost her son in a tragic crash is advocating for more vegetation to be cleared from railroad crossings.

Our Mackenzie Spink has more on that bill and the State road plans that passed a committee earlier today.

>> For the last six years, Tanya Serna has been fighting for vegetation clearance laws in Kentucky after her son Hunter died in a collision with an oncoming train.

>> Hunter was a 19 year old engineering student at the University of Louisville.

He was full of life.

He enjoyed holidays.

He was just.

I know a lot of parents will say this, that they're the sunshine in your lives, Hunter really was Tuesday night on April 28th, 2020 at 8 p.m.

I got a very dreadful phone call.

My son was hit by a train.

It wasn't the driver's fault.

As a matter of fact, we know that the driver was slowing down, not trying to speed or beat the train.

It was the train.

Couldn't see the car.

The car could not see the train.

And the vegetation was what obscured the driver's vision.

>> House Bill 311 requires railway companies to clear vegetation for 250ft in each direction.

At railroad crossings.

It passed the Senate Transportation Committee unanimously.

The state's transportation budget also passed the committee unanimously today.

House Bill 501 contains the two year spending plan for the transportation cabinet.

One highlight is the Grant pool, available for cities and counties to use on whatever transportation project their district needs.

>> There will be a $24 million grant pool for improvement projects, or paving.

That 24 million will be 12 million for cities, 12 million for for counties.

>> Committee chair Senator Jimmy Higdon says prior to legislation requiring a vision test for license renewals, there were roughly 20,000 online renewals a month.

Now that number is closer to 1000.

>> There'll be a new vision testing program put into place that will allow public libraries to do vision testing, if they so choose, and the transportation cabinet will supply the equipment and and do the do the training with with the thoughts that people could get their vision testing.

And while they're at the library, they could get online and renew their license online.

>> House Bill 502 is the budget specifically for road projects and highway construction.

Chair Higdon says this year's plan is unique.

>> This one is 100% funded with no over programing with State dollars.

That's the first time in in my recollection that we've that we've not over programed the road fund.

>> The fact that we're fully funding these projects is the most responsible road plan I've seen in my short time here.

But even as a magistrate for the ten years prior, looking at road plans.

>> House bills 501 and 502 both passed committee and have since passed the full Senate and Full House and will next head to the governor's desk.

This was Senator Higdon's last time chairing the Senate Transportation Committee, as this is his last regular session before retirement for Kentucky edition.

I'm Mackenzie Spink.

>> Also out of that committee representative Beverly Chester Burton's house, Bill 425 also