MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board Chair Joseph Aiello (left) and Vice Chair Monica Tibbits-Nutt during a November 2019 board meeting. Photo by Chris Lisinski | State House News Service.

With slightly more than eight weeks until the MBTA’s board expires and no vote on its successor in the House budget plan, lawmakers still need to choose a plan and a vehicle for the future of the T management and oversight.

Rep. Bradford Hill of Ipswich, the House’s number-two Republican, filed an amendment to the chamber’s $47.6 billion fiscal year 2022 budget plan that would have established a permanent seven-member board for the MBTA to replace the existing five-member Fiscal and Management Control Board.

However, his amendment was cast aside during talks that led to the adoption of a consolidated amendment on transportation, leaving the board’s fate still undetermined ahead of its June 30 expiration.

The board was originally set to expire on June 30, 2020. Last summer, after the House and Senate had approved competing proposals for an MBTA board, legislators opted to extend the FMCB’s authorization by one more year.

If they do not decide on a path this time around by the end-of-June deadline, control of the T is set to revert to the Department of Transportation Board of Directors, which oversaw the agency before the FMCB was created in 2015.

Hill’s proposal would have included the transportation secretary as an ex officio member and allowed the MBTA Advisory Board, an independent group representing cities and towns served by the transit network, to select a member.