House Democrats will seek a vote this week on a roughly $1.3 billion spending plan that would inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the MBTA as the agency wrestles with a major budget gap.
The House on Monday teed up its redraft (H 4005) of Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to spend down about $1.3 billion in available surtax revenue, moving to clear that measure from the to-do pile in the week before House Democrats unveil their annual budget bill.
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Money from the voter-approved levy on wealthy households can only be used for education and transportation investments. The House bill, marked for a House vote Wednesday, calls for directing most of the available surtax pot — $828 million — toward the transportation sector and $353.5 million toward education.
House budget chief Aaron Michlewitz said his team and Healey