119-hr5024

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5024 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5024

 To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow any recipient of 
 urbanized area formula grant funds to use such funds for operating 
 costs of equipment and facilities used in public transportation, and 
 for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 22, 2025

 Mr. Lawler (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bresnahan, and Ms. 
 Malliotakis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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 A BILL

 To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow any recipient of 
 urbanized area formula grant funds to use such funds for operating 
 costs of equipment and facilities used in public transportation, and 
 for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Transit Funding Flexibility Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF URBANIZED AREA FORMULA GRANT FUNDS FOR PUBLIC 
 TRANSPORTATION OPERATING COSTS.

 

Section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (a) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (1)
            (D) by striking ``in an 
 urbanized area with a population of fewer than 200,000 
 individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the 
 Census''; and
        (B) by striking paragraphs

    (2) and

    (3) ;

    (2) in subsection
            (c) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (1)
            (L) by striking ``and'' at the 
 end;
        (B) in paragraph

    (2) by striking ``the 
 certification'' and inserting ``each certification'';
            (C) by redesignating paragraph

    (2) as paragraph

    (3) ; and
            (D) by inserting before paragraph

    (3) , as so 
 redesignated, the following new paragraph:
 ``

    (2) the recipient, not later than the 30th day of the 
 first full fiscal year after a recipient first receives grant 
 funds under this section and each fiscal year thereafter, shall 
 submit to the Secretary a certification that, for the fiscal 
 year, the recipient will maintain effort with respect to any 
 operating costs of equipment and facilities for which grant 
 funds are used; and''; and

    (3) in subsection

    (f)

    (3) --
        (A) by striking ``The Secretary may'' and inserting 
 ``
        (A) in general.--Subject to subparagraph
        (B) , the 
 Secretary may''; and
        (B) by adding at the end the following new 
 subparagraph:
 ``
        (B) Failure to maintain effort.--If, in 
 conducting a review, audit, and evaluation under this 
 subsection, the Secretary finds that a recipient failed 
 to maintain effort during a fiscal year as certified to 
 under subsection
            (c) (2) , the Secretary shall reduce by 
 \1/3 \any amount such recipient is to receive under 
 this section in the next fiscal year.''.
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