Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
The bill eliminates biannual clock changes and provides longer evening daylight year-round (benefiting sleep stability and evening commerce) at the cost of darker winter mornings with safety risks and administrative and coordination burdens for governments and businesses.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public safety, transit security, and the cleanliness/appearance of Washington, D.C., while increasing federal oversight and enforcement—but these gains come with higher costs, potential resource diversion from services, jurisdictional friction with local authorities, and significant civil‑liberties and immigrant‑community impacts.
Amtrak Executive Bonus Disclosure Act
The bill improves transparency and accountability over Amtrak executive pay funded by federal dollars, while imposing modest administrative costs and creating potential recruitment/compensation pressures for executives.
Recognizing the need to improve physical access to many federally funded facilities for all people of the United States, particularly people with disabilities.
The resolution reaffirms equal-access principles and highlights disparities to inform future policy, but it contains no binding requirements or funding to produce immediate, concrete accessibility improvements.
Bus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 2025
The bill speeds and simplifies transit vehicle procurement—helping agencies secure manufacturing slots and renew fleets sooner—at the cost of greater financial and oversight risks, especially for taxpayers and smaller agencies, if contractual protections and safeguards are not maintained.
Bus Operator Safety and Security Act
The bill strengthens physical protections for transit drivers and clarifies procurement standards for federally funded buses, at the cost of higher agency/taxpayer expenses, potential new safety/design tradeoffs, possible labor conflicts, and unequal rural coverage.
DRIVE Across America Act of 2026
The bill expands and accelerates zero‑emission vehicle charging, fleets, and mobility on federal and affiliated lands—improving access, air quality, and program transparency—while imposing material federal and local costs, administrative burdens, and some implementation and oversight risks.
PATH Act
The bill gives transit agencies more forecasting flexibility to better align grants with local growth — potentially directing funds to projects that match future demand — but increases the risk of optimistic projections misallocating federal dollars and raises planning costs for recipients.
ASAP Act
The bill directs sustained federal funding and stakeholder involvement to upgrade legacy rail accessibility—accelerating benefits for many riders with disabilities and transit‑dependent communities—at the cost of ongoing federal spending, required local matches, and a competitive structure that may leave some poorer or newer systems without relief.
Modal Parity in Permitting Act
The bill lets transit agencies secure needed land earlier and clarifies property terminology to accelerate projects and reduce cost risk, but it raises the chance of wasted spending, community uncertainty over held parcels, and short-term legal and administrative burdens.
STAR Act
The bill trades a modest, short-term administrative burden and temporary confusion for state/local agencies and contractors in exchange for clearer statutory organization and reduced long-term legal ambiguity in administering FTA grants.
National Transit Frontline Workforce Training Act
Creates a federally supported, nonprofit-run national transit workforce center that could improve training, hiring, and service reliability for agencies and workers, but centralizes authority and uses federal funds without guaranteed results unless implementation and measurable accountability are enforced.
Investments in Rural Transit Act
The bill strengthens federal support, coordination, and potential cost savings for tribal and rural transit and promotes cooperative procurements and clean‑fleet planning, but many gains depend on nonbinding reports and new administrative resources, which could delay benefits, shift costs, reduce competition for small suppliers, or weaken oversight.
Balance the Highway Trust Fund Act
The bill enforces fiscal discipline by tying highway and transit obligations to current Highway Trust Fund receipts—improving predictability and reducing unfunded liabilities—but at the cost of smaller or more variable near-term infrastructure and transit investment, potential project delays, and uneven impacts across States and workers.
BRIDGE Act
The bill directs predictable federal funding to repair aging commuter-rail bridges—improving safety and reliability for riders and operators—but does so at a recurring federal cost and with administrative and cost-sharing hurdles that can delay projects and shift expenses to local owners.
Maximizing Transportation Efficiency Act
The bill shifts federal resources toward TDM programs and small-project/rural set-asides to reduce congestion and emissions and expand local mobility options, but it does so by redirecting funds from traditional capital projects, adding administrative and implementation challenges, and risking ongoing federal dependence for operating costs.
Passenger Rail Crew Protection Act
The bill strengthens and clarifies federal penalties to improve safety for rail crews and passengers, but does so with broad definitions and expanded federal jurisdiction that risk criminalizing minor conduct, imposing severe penalties, and raising enforcement costs.
PATH to Education Act
The bill improves transit access to educational programs—especially for low-income students and Head Start families—by funding service changes, but its modest funding and potential long‑term local cost obligations limit how many communities benefit and may leave some institutions without improvements.
Build HUBS Act
The bill accelerates transit-oriented and attainable housing near rail and transit by streamlining federal credit and approvals and extending TIFIA authority, but it increases taxpayer financial exposure, reduces some environmental and public review protections, and raises risks of gentrification and uneven local impacts.
Moving Transit Forward Act of 2025
The bill provides substantial federal operating support and flexibility to expand and secure urban transit service, but it binds localities to maintain current non‑Federal spending and relaxes regional planning oversight, potentially shifting existing transit funding priorities and limiting certain service model changes.
REPAIR Infrastructure Act
The bill directs substantial federal resources and program eligibility toward reconstructing and reconnecting communities for safer, multimodal, and lower-emission infrastructure, but does so at recurring Highway Trust Fund cost and with new rules that increase administrative burdens, limit some capacity-expanding projects, and may constrain state and local flexibility.
Streamline Transit Projects Act
The bill speeds delivery of routine transit projects in large urban areas and builds local capacity and transparency, but shifts substantial legal liability and environmental risk to local governments while excluding smaller jurisdictions and tribes.
UBER Act
The bill increases safety and contractor accountability for federal ride services but narrows the pool of eligible drivers and vendors—raising compliance costs, potential delays, and discrimination risks for non‑English speakers and small providers.
STOP Human Trafficking Act
The bill directs multi‑year federal funding, standardized training, data collection, and centralized coordination to strengthen prevention, identification, and victim support in transportation—trading increased federal spending, administrative and privacy burdens, and some loss of local flexibility for better-coordinated, evidence‑based anti‑trafficking efforts.
Small Communities Transit Improvement Act
The bill shifts a larger slice of fixed federal transit formula funds to small transit-intensive cities—boosting service and planning predictability locally—but reduces shares available to other recipients and may create trade-offs for taxpayers and other transit priorities.
Safe Transit Accountability Act
The bill speeds and clarifies transit safety decisions by naming a single accountable executive to break ties, but it does so by concentrating authority and liability in one individual, which can weaken oversight and collaboration.
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
The bill makes daylight saving time permanent in most States—boosting evening activity and preserving some state choice—but shifts risks to darker mornings, worsened circadian/health outcomes for some, and creates administrative and coordination costs.
Rail Service Continuity and Stability Act of 2025
The bill preserves existing long-distance Amtrak service and associated jobs and community connectivity by authorizing open-ended funding, but does so at the expense of potentially higher federal spending, weaker incentives for cost-efficiency, and exclusion of future route expansions.
Surface Transportation Weather Safety Gap Analysis Act of 2025
The bill directs a study to identify and prioritize interventions that could reduce weather-related crashes and better target assistance to underserved areas, improving safety and spending efficiency, but it delays immediate action, may increase future taxpayer-funded programs, and raises privacy risks from data integration.
GREEN Streets Act
The bill requires states and MPOs to measure and cut road-related GHGs and shifts federal funding and incentives toward transit, active transport, resilience, and land‑use strategies—accelerating climate and mobility benefits but imposing new costs, compliance burdens, and funding trade-offs that may strain small or rural jurisdictions and delay traditional road projects.
