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The bill provides states with more predictable, formula‑based highway and fueling/charging funds and preserves time and familiar administrative rules for obligating them, but shifts competitive EV‑charging dollars into constrained formula grants—potentially slowing charger deployment, reducing targeted support for priority and underserved projects, and creating budgeting and obligation‑timing trade‑offs.
State governments (and local partners) receive additional, formula‑apportioned federal infrastructure funds (on top of existing §104(c)/§165 shares) for highways, bridges, and charging/fueling projects, increasing resources and fiscal flexibility for state transportation programs.
States keep the original NEVI/competitive program availability period for these amounts, giving state agencies more predictable time to plan, obligate, and complete roadway and fueling infrastructure projects.
Redistribution and administration follow established Title 23 apportionment formulas and IIJA oversight rules, providing a familiar, predictable allocation and compliance framework that eases planning and federal‑aid administration for States.
Drivers, state governments, and taxpayers may see slower EV charger deployment because the bill limits use of repurposed NEVI funds for charging infrastructure and shifts funds away from the competitive charging program, reducing resources targeted to public EV charging.
Local governments, grant recipients, and transportation workers lose access to targeted competitive grants for priority charging/fueling projects because those funds are redirected into formula apportionments, which may underfund high‑need or high‑impact projects.
Low‑income and underserved communities risk reduced equitable charging assistance and Joint Office‑driven programs because shifting funds to formula apportionments reduces targeted federal investments intended to address access disparities.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Repurposes unobligated and future NEVI and charging-infrastructure grant funds to States for highway and bridge projects, administered as additional Title 23 apportionments.
Official title: To authorize funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure programs to be used for other highway projects, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 12, 2025 by Dustin Johnson · Last progress June 12, 2025
Redirects unspent and future NEVI (National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure) and related charging-and-fueling infrastructure grant funds away from EV charging projects and instead distributes those amounts to States for highway, bridge, and associated engineering projects. Distributed funds are treated as additional Title 23 apportionments, administered under Federal-aid highway rules, and may not be used for their original charging infrastructure purposes. The measure requires redistribution to States on a pro rata basis tied to existing 23 U.S.C. §104(c) and §165 apportionment formulas, preserves the original availability periods for the funds, and specifies applicable administrative rules and obligation treatments for the repurposed dollars.