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The bill reallocates unobligated and future NEVI funds into predictable, flexible state transportation funding—boosting highway, bridge, and other infrastructure projects—while reducing federal support and targeted equity funding for EV charging deployment, creating a trade‑off between near‑term road infrastructure investment and national EV infrastructure and equity goals.
State and local governments receive predictable, additional flexible transportation funds (above regular apportionments) each fiscal year that can be used immediately for highways, bridges, construction, preservation, and engineering projects.
States retain multi-year availability for repurposed funds, preserving the same obligation time windows and flexibility for multi-year project planning and obligations.
Funds can be used for wildlife–vehicle collision reduction projects, which can improve road safety and reduce vehicle damage, injuries, and fatalities.
The bill prohibits using unobligated and future NEVI funds for EV charging infrastructure, reducing federal resources available to expand the EV charging network.
Loss of NEVI targeted set‑aside support for disadvantaged areas reduces funds specifically intended to help rural and low‑income communities deploy EV charging, worsening equitable access.
Redistributed amounts may be subject to Federal‑aid obligation limitations, which could delay or restrict states' ability to obligate funds quickly for projects.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Redirects unobligated and future NEVI and related grant funds to States for highway/bridge/parking and related engineering, and bars their use for EV charging.
Introduced March 13, 2025 by Cynthia M. Lummis · Last progress March 13, 2025
Redirects unspent and future NEVI (electric vehicle charging) program funds and certain grant-program funds into highway- and bridge-related uses, and bars using those redirected funds for EV charging. States will receive redistributed amounts by formula, added on top of their regular highway apportionments, and may use them for Federal‑aid highway construction/rehabilitation, National Bridge Inventory bridge projects, wildlife‑vehicle collision improvements, commercial vehicle parking projects, and related preliminary engineering. The law sets how the funds are distributed, their availability period, and that they must be administered under the usual title 23 rules.