The bill aims to reallocate and clarify federal transit, safety, and culvert-grant rules to improve safety, target transit funding, and bolster flood resilience and jobs, but it introduces winners and losers among states and localities, creates administrative and eligibility uncertainties (including a possible D.C. exclusion), and could increase federal budgetary pressures.
Communities nationwide (especially urban and rural areas) could see safer streets because aligning the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program with highway-safety programs encourages data-driven project design and interventions that reduce traffic deaths and injuries.
Growing or high-density states and metro areas could receive reweighted transit apportionments that increase federal funding for transit projects, improving transit service where ridership and population growth are concentrated.
Local and rural communities could receive federal grants to replace or remove culverts, reducing flood risk and improving drainage and fish passage while supporting local construction and maintenance jobs.
Aligning SS4A with 23 U.S.C. §402 may narrow or add conditions to eligible projects and impose new administrative requirements, reducing funding availability for some local projects (including innovative/nontraditional safety projects) and delaying grant awards.
Changes to transit apportionment rules create winners and losers—some states or areas could lose expected shares, disrupting existing projects, budgets, and planning for transit services.
Removing the explicit reference to 'the District of Columbia' could create legal or administrative uncertainty and risk unintentionally excluding D.C. from explicit §5339 eligibility.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Modifies multiple transportation statutes: removes an explicit D.C. mention from a transit list, adds apportionment and culvert grant language, and alters an IIJA cross-reference to 23 U.S.C. 402.
Introduced January 6, 2026 by Eleanor Holmes Norton · Last progress January 6, 2026
Modifies several federal transportation statutes to change wording and cross-references, remove an explicit reference to the District of Columbia in a transit formula list, add new apportionment-related language, create or modify a national culvert grant program, and adjust a Safe Streets and Roads for All cross-reference tied to highway safety law. The text provided omits many operative details (exact insertion language, dollar amounts, eligibility rules, and effective dates), so the practical effects depend on the missing provisions and any implementing guidance.