The U.S. Home of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I Committee) on Could 18, 2026, launched H.R. 8870, the BUILD America 250 Act (BA250 Act), a five-year floor transportation laws proposal that authorizes $580 billion over fiscal 12 months (FY) 2027 by means of FY 2031. A complete of $474.4 billion is assured funding from the Freeway Belief Fund (HTF), and the remaining $106 billion is allowed, topic to the provision of future appropriations, from the Common Fund. Not like the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act (IIJA), this invoice doesn’t embrace superior appropriations.

The T&I Committee on Could 21-22, 2026, held a full committee markup on an Modification within the Nature of a Substitute to the BA250 Act, advancing the invoice by a bipartisan 62-2 vote. The committee agreed to Chairman Sam Graves’ (R-Mo.) Supervisor’s Modification en bloc and 19 different amendments, together with including H.R. 7748, the Railway Security Act of 2026, to the invoice.

Among the many Invoice’s Highlights

  • assured funding for transportation modes (FY 2027 to 2031)
    • $376 billion for the Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA)
    • $87.6 billion for transit applications beneath the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
    • $5.7 billion for freeway security applications beneath the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA)
    • $5 billion for motor provider security applications beneath the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration (FMCSA)
  • extra giant authorizations, contingent on future appropriations (FYs 2027 to 2031)
    • $64.7 billion for rail applications beneath the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
    • $10 billion for the Aggressive Freeway Bridge Program, which is run by the FHWA
    • $6 billion for Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) program, which is managed by FHWA and the U.S. Division of Transportation (DOT)
    • $10 billion for the Mega Grant Program (freight/multimodal)
    • $15 billion for Capital Funding Grants (CIG) program beneath FTA

Title I: Federal Highways

Federal-Assist Freeway Program (Freeway Method Funding): $293.88 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • Nationwide Freeway Efficiency Program, $166 billion
  • Floor Transportation Block Grant Program (STBG), $74.7 million
  • Transportation Options Program, $8.3 million
  • Freeway Security Enchancment Program, $17.49 million
  • Congestion Mitigation and Air High quality Enchancment Program (CMAQ), $15 million
  • Metropolitan Planning, $2.8 million
  • Nationwide Freeway Freight and Freeway Precedence Hall Program (renames current Freeway Freight Program), $8.25 million

Modifications to Current FHWA Method Packages

  • eliminates Selling Resilient Operations for Transformative, Environment friendly, and Value-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) system and Carbon Discount system applications created in IIJA
  • CMAQ
    • provides new mission eligibilities – superior transportation and congestion administration applied sciences that cut back visitors congestion or enhance air high quality and digital infrastructure
    • provides a set-aside for infrastructure for electrical car charging, hydrogen fueling, propane fueling or pure gasoline for medium- and heavy-duty autos to this system, which replaces the Nationwide Electrical Car Charging system program
  • metropolitan planning – directs DOT to create a course of for metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to instantly obtain metropolitan planning apportionment reasonably than going by means of state DOTs

Bridge Method Program: $46 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • replaces IIJA’s bridge system program with a brand new system program for state DOTs
  • requires states to put aside 20 p.c yearly for off-system bridges and 25 p.c for state DOTs to run a aggressive course of to fund regionally owned bridge tasks
  • ensures every state receives $75 million and at the least the quantity the state obtained beneath the earlier IIJA bridge system program, then distributes funding primarily based on each the quantity of bridge space in every state and the quantity of poor situation bridge space

Aggressive Freeway Bridge Program: $10 billion whole

  • licensed to be funded by means of Common Fund
  • replaces IIJA’s Bridge Funding discretionary grant program with a brand new grant program for bridges (not like IIJA, the brand new program doesn’t present any advance appropriations)
  • Nationwide Freeway System bridges are eligible
  • most of fifty p.c federal share and grant awards will not be lower than $50 million
  • directs the DOT Secretary to think about the next components for awards:
    • common day by day individual and freight throughput anticipated to be supported by the mission and security advantages of the mission
    • nationwide or regional financial advantages of the mission and geographic variety
    • extent to which the mission is for a bridge in poor situation or liable to falling into poor situation

Protected Streets and Roads for All Program: $3.75 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • continues the discretionary grant program that was created in IIJA for Imaginative and prescient Zero tasks
  • reduces set-aside for planning grants from 40 p.c to five p.c and units apart 30 p.c for rural communities
  • will increase federal share from 80 p.c to 90 p.c

Floor Transportation Accelerator Grant Program: $12 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • creates new discretionary grant program that’s similar to the present Higher Using Investments to Leverage Improvement and INFRA grant applications
  • 50 p.c for native and regional, 25 p.c for rural and 25 p.c for city grants (inhabitants of not lower than 50,000)
  • Program objectives are to:
    • enhance connectivity
    • enhance the protection and reliability of the motion of individuals and freight
    • generate regional financial progress and enhance high quality of life in coated rural areas
  • Eligible mission prices embrace:
    • improvement part actions, together with planning, feasibility evaluation, income forecasting, environmental evaluation, preliminary engineering and design work, in addition to different preconstruction actions
    • development, reconstruction, rehabilitation, acquisition of actual property (together with land associated to the mission and enhancements to the land), environmental mitigation, development contingencies, acquisition of kit and operational enhancements
  • Eligible entities embrace states, native governments, “particular objective district or public authority” with a transportation operate or a lessee of a federally owned floor transportation hub (together with a port authority) and transit companies.

PROTECT Grant Program: $500 million yearly

  • funded by means of HTF
  • continues the discretionary grant program created in IIJA to award tasks that present floor transportation resilience to pure hazards

Title II: Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program

TIFIA: $1.25 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • continues TIFIA credit score subsidies at flat ranges from the final 12 months of IIJA
  • continues the TIFIA for Airports Program that was created within the IIJA and permits as much as 15 p.c of whole TIFIA funding to be reserved for airport tasks

Title III: Public Transportation/Transit

Urbanized Space Method Grants (Part 5307): $39.99 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF
  • current FTA system program for states and native recipients for transit capital and working help and transportation-related planning in urbanized areas
  • eliminates the Passenger Ferry grant program that beforehand was set-aside

Crime Prevention and Safety

  • Permits the next actions and tasks as eligible bills beneath Urbanized Space Method Grants (Part 5307) program:
    • lighting in or adjoining to a public transportation system (together with the bus stops, subway stations, parking tons and garages)
    • digicam surveillance
    • emergency telephones to contact regulation enforcement or safety
    • farebox infrastructure enhancements
    • cybersecurity enhancements
    • know-how, together with {hardware} or software program investments designed to fight or report crime or enhance safety
    • working prices associated to fare enforcement and prevention of fare evasion, hiring transit officers to police and contracting with native police departments

Consolidated State Block Grant Program

  • This creates a brand new State Block Grant program that may consolidate all of the FTA system grant apportionments (excluding giant metropolitan areas above 3.5 million inhabitants) and permit states to use to grow to be the designated recipient of this block grant transit program.
  • Urbanized areas would have the chance to decide out.
  • Block grant funds may very well be spent on a variety of actions together with, amongst different makes use of, capital and planning tasks, job entry and reverse commute tasks, paratransit/senior transportation, state of excellent restore, People with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, intercity bus transportation and transit working prices.

All Stations Accessibility: $2 billion whole as a set-aside from Part 5307

  • funded by means of HTF (IIJA beforehand offered advance appropriations)
  • continues the All Stations Accessibility discretionary grant program created in IIJA
  • eligible tasks embrace “capital and planning tasks to improve the accessibility of legacy rail mounted guideway public transportation methods for people with disabilities, together with people who use wheelchairs, by rising the variety of current … stations or amenities for passenger use that meet or exceed the brand new development” of ADA requirements
  • new program will help transit companies that favor to not administer FTA federal grants

CIG Program: $15 billion whole

  • licensed to be funded by means of Common Fund (Not like IIJA, doesn’t embrace advance appropriations for this program)
  • renames the Small Begins program to ”streamlined begin” grants
  • will increase the entire value most for this system from $400 million to lower than $1 billion; federal share is capped at 50 p.c of $1 billion, and tasks lower than $1 billion are eligible for 80 p.c federal funding (this might seize most bus speedy transit (BRT) tasks; presently, the utmost federal share is $150 million for Small Begins)
  • Core Capability candidates not want exhibit that corridors might be at or over capability inside 10 years (expands the definition of to incorporate tasks that considerably enhance the capability of a system and tasks that cut back passenger journey time, together with for passengers with disabilities)
  • requires CIG candidates to have initiated the Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act (NEPA) and accomplished 30 p.c of design and engineering previous to getting into Mission Improvement
  • DOT might enhance the mission ranking if applicant submits proof that the enacted native insurance policies promote housing improvement for space accessible to transit alongside the mission route
  • codifies the Expedited Mission Supply program created within the Fixing America’s Floor Transportation Act, makes state of excellent restore eligible and raises the award quantity to 40 p.c of the entire mission value

Bus and Bus Amenities: $10 billion whole

  • funded by means of HTF (not like IIJA, doesn’t present advance appropriations)
  • Bus and Bus Amenities Method program, $6.85 billion
  • Bus and Bus Amenities Discretionary grant program, $3.16 billion
  • eliminates the Low-No Emission grant program however provides it as mission eligibility
  • provides Passenger Ferry aggressive grant program because the invoice eliminates the present set-aside beneath Part 5307 for ferry applications

Spare Ratio

  • prohibits DOT from issuing coverage, laws or steering that units a spare ratio for buses whereas additionally sustaining DOT’s authority to require a transit company to supply a justification for functions of buying new rolling inventory

Title IV: Freeway Security

Title IV of the BA250 Act reauthorizes the NHTSA freeway security grant applications by means of FY 2031 and simplifies how federal security funds are deployed.

The invoice supplies roughly $5.67 billion in HTF contract authority over 5 years to assist freeway security grants, enforcement efforts and analysis actions, particularly for the next:

  • Freeway Security Packages. Part 402 of Title 23 ($4 billion whole)
  • Freeway Security Packages R&D. Part 403 of Title 23 ($1.1 billion whole)
  • Excessive Visibility Enforcement Program. Part 404 of Title 23 ($260.7 million whole)
  • Administrative Bills. Chapter 4 of Title 23 ($211 million whole)
  • Nationwide Driver Register. Chapter 303 of Title 49 ($41 million whole)
  • Consolidation of Security Grants. The invoice merges the Part 405 state incentive grant applications into Part 402 state system grants, making a single, less complicated State Freeway Security Grant framework. The consolidated Part 402 provides a number of the earlier Part 405 precedence areas as required components of the Part 402 program, notably occupant safety, impaired driving, distracted driving, rushing, motorcyclist security and non-motorist security. States above sure fatality-rate thresholds should spend sure proportion quantities on sure security areas, whereas states under the thresholds retain flexibility.
  • Expanded Eligibilities. The invoice provides new eligible makes use of of grant funds, together with work zone security, micromobility security, trailer security training and applications enhancing interactions between regulation enforcement and people with disabilities.
  • Security Information and Transparency. The invoice directs DOT to enhance state security knowledge (e.g., drug-impaired driving, Mannequin Minimal Uniform Crash Standards alignment and underride crash reporting). It requires a public dashboard monitoring state efficiency on attaining security targets and expands authorized protections for federally required security knowledge analyses.
  • Impaired Driving Focus. The invoice requires analysis on marijuana and polysubstance impairment, establishes a nationwide drug-involved crash knowledge assortment system and authorizes grants to assist toxicology testing and knowledge assortment, with privateness protections for such knowledge.
  • Work Zone and Roadway Employee Security. Along with including work zone security as an eligible exercise beneath Part 402, the invoice establishes an interagency working group (DOT and the Occupational Well being and Security Administration) to develop finest practices, deal with knowledge gaps and enhance employee protections.
  • Enforcement Packages. The invoice expands the Excessive-Visibility Enforcement Program to incorporate rushing and creates a Site visitors Security Enforcement Middle of Excellence to assist state and native enforcement methods.

Title V: Motor Carriers

Title V of the BA250 Act reauthorizes FMCSA applications by means of FY 2031 and makes focused updates to security, enforcement and workforce applications. The title largely maintains the core construction of FMCSA grant and compliance applications however introduces a sequence of incremental reforms geared toward enhancing knowledge methods, strengthening oversight and modernizing regulatory frameworks. Essentially the most important change in Title V is the inclusion for the primary time of a federal framework for autonomous industrial motor autos (CMV):

  • Program Reauthorization and Funding. Offers $5 billion over 5 years for FMCSA applications, together with Motor Provider Security Help Program (MCSAP) grants, Excessive-Precedence grants, industrial driver license (CDL) implementation, enforcement coaching and administrative operations
  • Autonomous CMV Framework. Establishes a brand new federal framework for automated driving system (ADS)-equipped CMVs.
    • directs DOT to develop a nationwide performance-based security customary requiring CMV producers to exhibit system efficiency and security by means of a proper “security case,” adjust to federal reporting necessities and meet current motor provider laws
    • establishes baseline necessities for operators of ADS-equipped CMVs, together with tasks associated to secure operation and oversight of distant or automated methods
    • clarifies that FMCSA’s current authority to preempt state legal guidelines associated to CMVs applies to ADS-equipped CMVs
  • Coaching and Workforce Improvement
    • extends the Protected Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program and explicitly notes that participation is probably not conditioned on any components not included within the statute
    • in tandem with the CMV autonomous autos (AVs) framework, creates a brand new workforce improvement grant program associated to supporting the CMV workforce in adapting to the impacts of latest applied sciences, specifically automated driving methods
    • mandates the elimination of noncompliant CDL coaching suppliers from the Coaching Supplier Registry inside 90 days
    • updates the CMV operator coaching grant program to prioritize higher-quality suppliers and provides a 50 p.c set-aside for applications requiring minimal behind-the-wheel hours
    • directs FMCSA to replace certification and coaching requirements for roadside inspectors and instructors
  • CMV Operators
    • establishes restroom entry necessities for industrial drivers at coated amenities and marine terminals
    • expands CDL program eligibility to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and supplies a phased compliance framework
    • requires disclosures for lease-purchase agreements and directs DOT to ban predatory lease-purchasing preparations by means of rulemaking
  • Driver Screening and Document Entry
    • requires a complete evaluation of the New Entrant Security Assurance Program
    • ensures potential employers have broader entry to driver security information and establishes an unbiased appeals course of for driver violations, requiring contested information to be explicitly flagged in federal databases
  • Brokers and Freight Forwarders. Requires DOT to problem a ultimate rule establishing qualification requirements for freight brokers and freight forwarders and extends common-ownership disclosure necessities
  • Directs DOT to implement Authorities Accountability Workplace suggestions to enhance the Nationwide Client Criticism Database, together with making criticism knowledge public
  • Requires ongoing knowledge and incident reporting and fast notification of crashes that lead to fatalities or critical bodily damage as a part of the phrases and situations for regulatory exemptions
  • Digital Logging Gadgets. Requires extra certification oversight, together with verification of certifications and publication of a public listing of compliant and noncompliant units
  • Family Items Client Safety. Offers FMCSA the flexibility to evaluate civil penalties and permits states to make use of grant funds for enforcement of federal family good statutes and laws; establishes a Family Items Client Safety Working Group

Title VI: Innovation

The invoice reauthorizes sure DOT know-how and analysis applications by means of 2031, together with:

  • Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants
    • amends the SMART grant program by including a brand new requirement for grant candidates to advertise new rising applied sciences that haven’t been extensively deployed, extending the annual reporting requirement till 2031
    • not like IIJA, doesn’t present any advance appropriations
  • Nationwide Motor Car Per-Mile Consumer Charge Pilot
    • reauthorizes the nationwide motorcar per-mile consumer payment pilot program by means of FY 2031
    • expands the aims of this system to incorporate knowledge assortment and reporting on the variations between a nationwide per-mile highway utilization cost and the federal motor fuels tax for rural and concrete drivers, in addition to the interoperability of highway utilization cost collections between a number of states
    • additionally requires the DOT Secretary to hold out a public consciousness marketing campaign on a nationwide motorcar per-mile consumer payment program
  • Clever Transportation Methods Program Advisory Committee (appointing a brand new labor member)
  • College Transportation Facilities (with new emphasis on disseminating analysis outcomes to native and state transportation officers)

Title IV additionally addresses key innovation insurance policies, together with:

  • enhancing the safety and privateness of presidency knowledge collections
  • new research associated to ADS and rising applied sciences, together with deployment methods, cybersecurity, accessibility, workforce and security
  • prohibiting procurement of foreign-made Gentle Detection and Ranging know-how from coated international nations, as outlined within the FY 2025 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act

Title VII: Freight and Multimodal Transportation Packages

The freight and multimodal title reauthorizes and funds key multimodal grant applications for important freight tasks whereas closely specializing in provide chain resilience and bottleneck discount throughout the nation’s freight community. It additionally creates a particular grant program to help with main upcoming worldwide occasions, such because the World Cup and the 2028 Olympics:

  • Freight Coverage and the Nationwide Multimodal Freight Community (NMFN). Locations heavier emphasis on mitigating transportation bottlenecks within the NMFN and in awarding aggressive grants; requires DOT to replace the NMFN each three years as an alternative of each 5 years
  • Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) Program. Codifies the FLOW Program as a voluntary public-private knowledge sharing program to enhance freight system effectivity
  • Mega Program (Nationwide Infrastructure Mission Help). Continues this program created in IIJA, at ranges flat from the final 12 months of IIJA (licensed at $2 billion per 12 months for $10 billion whole licensed); not like IIJA, this system doesn’t present any advance appropriations; expands mission eligibility for sure transportation hubs and public transportation tasks and reduces the set-aside for tasks that value between $100 million and $500 million (from 50 p.c to 25 p.c)
  • Nationwide Culvert Elimination, Alternative and Restoration Program. Continues this discretionary grant program created in IIJA; not like IIJA, this system doesn’t present advance appropriations; expands listing of eligible recipients and tasks
  • Grants for Worldwide Video games. Creates a grant program offering transportation funding to areas which are internet hosting, supporting or have jurisdiction over an space positioned close to multiday worldwide sports activities occasions (licensed at $50 million per 12 months till 2031)
  • Rural and Tribal Infrastructure Funding. Extends the Rural and Tribal Infrastructure Development Pilot Program till 2031
  • Cargo Theft. Creates an advisory committee to supply suggestions on deterring and addressing cargo theft and freight fraud

Title X: Passenger Rail (FRA) and Hazardous Supplies

Passenger Rail Funding

The BA250 Act authorizes important passenger rail funding throughout Amtrak, FRA security and analysis actions, and aggressive grant applications however doesn’t present Common Fund advance appropriations similar to these enacted in IIJA. In consequence, precise rail funding ranges will rely on the enactment of future annual appropriations:

  • Amtrak Funding. Authorizes annual funding of round $2 billion, or $10.4 billion whole by means of FY 2031, for the Northeast Hall and annual funding of round $4 billion, or $20.7 billion whole by means of FY 2031, for the Nationwide Community
  • Nationwide Intercity Passenger Railroad Partnership Program. Combines three current rail applications – the Federal-State Partnership, Restoration & Enhancement and Interstate Passenger Rail Compacts – right into a single program licensed at $18.5 billion over 5 years
  • Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Security Enhancements (CRISI). Authorizes $9.1 billion over 5 years for this discretionary grant program
    • expands eligible candidates to incorporate lessees of federal hubs and regulation enforcement
    • provides eligibility for tasks that cut back rail visitors congestion and improvement or testing tasks, together with wayside defect detection know-how, rail automotive and prepare motion monitoring know-how, and superior methods
    • permits DOT to waive value‑profit evaluation and waive native funding match for some freight and freight security tasks
  • Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination Grants. Continues this grant program that was created in IIJA; authorizes $3.65 billion over 5 years
  • Emergency Aid. Establishes a brand new grant program to supply emergency aid grants on both a reimbursable or advance funding foundation for rail infrastructure and operations following disasters or emergencies
  • Rail Expertise and Asset Pilot Program. Creates a brand new grant program for rail know-how methods and property that enhance rail security and effectivity, cut back cargo theft or monitor rail community fluidity, licensed as a $100 million set-aside from the CRISI program for every of the 5 fiscal years

Passenger Rail Insurance policies

Notably, the ultimate invoice contains the provisions of the Railway Security Act of 2026, which was adopted as an modification in the course of the invoice’s markup. It additionally codifies FRA’s voluntary close-call reporting system and contains quite a few coverage provisions, together with these associated to the continued California Excessive-Velocity Rail mission, Amtrak govt compensation, cargo safety and self-propelled freight autos:

  • Railway Security Act. Incorporates the Railway Security Act of 2026 (H.R. 928), a precedence of Vice President JD Vance, implementing two-person crew requirement, elevated use and regulation of hotbox detectors, requiring advance neighborhood notification of hazardous materials motion and increasing grant applications to assist present first responders with correct private protecting gear
  • Confidential Shut Name Reporting. Requires DOT to provoke a rulemaking to determine a confidential shut name reporting system that requires participation from Class I railroad carriers
  • Amtrak Executives. Applies Freedom of Info Act and open assembly necessities to Amtrak’s board of administrators and requires public posting and congressional reporting on Amtrak’s govt bonuses
  • California Excessive-Velocity Rail. Creates a particular working group to evaluate the standing of the California Excessive Velocity Rail mission, together with members appointed by congressional management, and restricts DOT from awarding future grants or monetary help till the working group submits a congressional report
  • Set up of Picture Recording Gadgets. Directs DOT to problem a rulemaking requiring every Class I railroad to put in inward- and outward-facing picture recording units in all controlling locomotive cabs and cab automotive working compartments
  • Rail Freight Cargo Safety Evaluation. Requires FRA to evaluate safety vulnerabilities affecting freight rail cargo, with a deal with defending the nationwide provide chain and decreasing financial losses
  • Self-Contained Propelled Freight Autos. Requires DOT to problem a proposed rulemaking setting forth security laws for self-contained propelled freight autos
  • Amtrak Acquisition of Property. Authorizes Amtrak to amass, personal, lease, develop and enter into joint public-private partnerships for property positioned on or adjoining to intercity passenger rail stations
  • Automated Monitor Inspection (ATI). Requires railroads to make use of ATI at common intervals to complement visible observe inspections

Mission Supply

  • Pre-Award Authority and Reimbursement. Codifies DOT’s skill to grant pre-award authority throughout rail applications and permits for reimbursement for property acquisition for rail tasks previous to finishing NEPA evaluation
  • Categorical Exclusions (CEs). Expands use of CEs for tasks in current operational rights of means and requires a survey to determine extra transportation-related CEs
  • Mission Supply Streamlining. Improves coordination amongst stakeholders, designates a lead company for NEPA compliance, establishes a 90-day time-frame to render NEPA choices, streamlines historic preservation course of and authorizes DOT to make funding obtainable for technical help
  • Railroad Rehabilitation and Enchancment Financing (RRIF) Program. Authorizes interest-only RRIF loans, permits grant recipients to make use of federal grants to fund the credit score threat premium utilized to RRIF loans and will increase the extent of obtainable funding

Hazardous Supplies

  • authorizes $75 million to 77 million per 12 months for the hazardous supplies program and $8 million yearly for emergency preparedness coaching grants by means of FY 2031
  • will increase civil penalties associated to transporting hazardous supplies
  • updates registration charges setting tiered caps for small companies ($250 to $500) and bigger entities ($500 to $5,000)
  • consolidates hazardous supplies security grants to streamline the method for emergency response trainings and assist for emergency responders

Amendments Adopted in Markup

Through the full committee markup on Could 21, 2026, the Home T&I Committee adopted a sequence of amendments by roll name and voice vote.

By Roll Name Vote:

  • Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Texas), Modification 094 (54-11). Contains Railway Security Act of 2026 in Title X, encompassing the next: implements the two-person crew requirement, updates definition of high-hazard trains, prohibits time limitations on inspections and updates grant eligibility to assist first responders buy gear for hazardous leaks and extra
  • Rep. Addison McDowell (R-N.C.), Modification 045 (64-1). Contains the Nationally Important Rail Station Modernization Act of 2026, which authorizes Amtrak to amass, personal, lease, develop and enter into joint public-private partnerships for property positioned on or adjoining to intercity passenger rail stations and prohibits state, native or nonfederal authorities from imposing property taxes, assessments or prices on Amtrak-owned property, enhancements or associated leasehold pursuits used for station-area improvement
  • Rep. Vince Fong (R-Calif.), Modification 041 (35-30). Guards towards abusive litigation affecting rideshare corporations concerning insurance coverage protection however doesn’t remove accountability; Chairman Graves launched an analogous modification within the 2005 floor transportation reauthorization invoice, the Protected, Accountable, Versatile, Environment friendly Transportation Fairness Act: A Legacy for Customers (SAFETEA-LU)
  • Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), Modification 093 (36-28). Amends Part 30106 of Title 49, U.S.C. (Graves Modification) to increase federal legal responsibility protections to peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms and car house owners who listing their automobiles on these platforms
  • Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. (R-Pa.), Modification 049 (36-28). Protects rental automotive corporations and different industrial car house owners from being sued in court docket for failing to incorporate nonmandatory or aftermarket security gear on their autos by including a “Obligation of Care” subsection to the Graves Modification
  • Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.), Modification 066 (51-13). Prioritizes tasks that assist the Trump Administration’s Maritime Motion Plan beneath the STBG
  • Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Modification 307 (40-24). Proposed by the American Trucking Affiliation, the modification would tighten security and regulatory necessities for the bottom transportation of enormous lithium battery shipments by treating them explicitly as hazardous supplies; applies particularly to shipments categorized beneath UN 3536

By Voice Vote:

  • Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), Modification 016. Requires the FMCSA to implement automated methods inside one 12 months to flag suspicious CMV registrations
  • Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), Modification 047. Acknowledges that present CIG metrics depend on present inhabitants density and ridership, as an alternative offering mission managers and sponsors flexibility to think about inhabitants progress developments
  • Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), Modification 064. Ensures that communities investing in BRT will not be shut out from federal help that helps plan housing and financial improvement round main transit corridors
  • Rep. Nehls (R-Texas), Modification 091. Modifications the federal value share beneath the Rail Expertise and Asset Pilot Program established within the underlying textual content from 50 p.c to 80 p.c, decreasing the required non-public match to the usual 20 p.c match used throughout applications similar to CRISI and STBG
  • Rep. David Taylor (R-Ohio), Modification 081. Leverages superior automation and different new applied sciences to develop and implement an improved vetting system for DOT candidates to determine chameleon carriers and directs the Comptroller Common to submit a report on the outcomes of a chameleon provider examine inside one 12 months of the invoice’s enactment

Conclusion

The bipartisan Home T&I Committee settlement on the BA250 Act textual content strengthens the case for Home management to deliver the invoice to the ground, and efforts are actually centered on shifting no matter is able to the Home ground as early as June or July.

The Home Committee on Vitality and Commerce (E&C) convened for a full committee markup on Could 21, 2026, to vote on the Motor Car Modernization Act of 2026 (H.R. 7389), which was proposed by Home E&C Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.). The committee adopted the invoice in a vote of 48-1 and is predicted to incorporate this invoice in its title of the invoice, which has not been formally launched but. The Senate committees with jurisdiction over this invoice haven’t launched their textual content but.

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