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Introduced July 15, 2025 by Marilyn Strickland · Last progress July 15, 2025
The bill directs federal funds and technical support to green and cool streets—improving safety, health, equity, and local jobs—while creating notable upfront and ongoing costs, shifting transportation funding priorities, and adding administrative and maintenance burdens for local governments and grantees.
Residents in heat-vulnerable, urban and low-income neighborhoods will experience cooler streets and reduced heat-related health risks because the bill prioritizes tree canopy, shade, and cooling infrastructure along transit corridors and school zones.
Pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, students, and families will get safer, more usable walking, biking, and transit corridors through extended Healthy Streets support and investments in shaded, greened infrastructure.
Under-resourced communities will receive targeted federal funding and priority access to projects, advancing environmental justice and directing resources to high-need areas.
Federal taxpayers and the federal budget face higher upfront and continuing costs because the bill expands planting, cooling infrastructure, and extends program funding through 2030.
Local governments, transit agencies, and grantees will bear ongoing tree and cooling-infrastructure maintenance and operating costs, straining municipal and grantee budgets.
Integrating projects into existing Surface Transportation Block Grant funding and extending authorizations may reallocate limited federal transportation dollars and reduce flexibility for other local priorities.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Extends and expands the Healthy Streets program through 2030 to support tree canopy, green infrastructure, shade, sensors, workforce development, and cooling plans along transportation corridors, prioritizing underserved areas.
Extends and expands the Department of Transportation’s Healthy Streets program through 2030 and broadens what projects and partners are eligible to deploy cooling infrastructure along walking, biking, and transit corridors. It adds new definitions and allowed activities (tree canopy, green infrastructure, shade structures, sensors, workforce development, school-zone cooling, community engagement), requires local plan approval and recipient maintenance, mandates annual reporting on temperature and equity outcomes, directs interagency coordination and technical assistance, and requires a five-year evaluation with recommendations on permanent authorization and integration into surface transportation block grants.