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Last progress June 12, 2025 (8 months ago)
Introduced on June 12, 2025 by Dustin Johnson
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Redirects unobligated and future funds within the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and the federal charging and fueling infrastructure grant program so that those amounts are distributed to States on an apportioned basis and limited to specified transportation-related uses. The bill sets annual distribution timing, clarifies how redistributed amounts count against obligation and availability limits, and makes redistributed funds subject to existing statutory rules that govern highway program funds.
Defines “Program” as the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program under title VIII of division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58).
Defines “Secretary” to mean the Secretary of Transportation.
Defines “State” by reference to the meaning in 23 U.S.C. 101(a).
Any amounts made available under the program that are unobligated as of the date of enactment must be used only for specified purposes (see subitems).
Allowed use (i): construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, or preservation of a Federal-aid highway.
Primary impacts fall on State governments and State departments of transportation, which will receive additional apportioned federal dollars previously held as unobligated NEVI or as unobligated balances in the charging/fueling grant program. States will have more direct control over those dollars but must use them only for specified transportation categories (highway, bridge, wildlife‑collision mitigation, commercial truck parking, or engineering work). Federal program administrators (Federal Highway Administration and DOT grant managers) will need to implement timing, formula, and accounting changes so redistributed amounts count against obligation limits and follow the same statutory rules that apply to apportioned highway funds. Charging and fueling infrastructure project sponsors, EV charging station developers, and competitive grant applicants could see less discretionary or centrally retained funding available for targeted EV charging projects because unobligated balances are moved into State apportionments. Contractors and local project sponsors working on highway, bridge, wildlife collision mitigation, and truck‑parking projects may see increased funding flow from these redistributed amounts. Overall, the change shifts funding from centralized program control to predictable State apportionments but restricts the uses of those funds to traditional transportation categories.
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Last progress March 13, 2025 (11 months ago)