Sponsor
Scott Perry
Representative · R-PA
The bill streamlines and clarifies highway funding rules to reduce administrative friction and speed project delivery, but risks cutting targeted set-aside funding and creates short-term compliance burdens and possible reductions in statutory safeguards.
State and local governments, MPOs, and transit planners will have clearer, consolidated statutory language about Federal-aid highway funding, reducing administrative burden and making it easier to identify and manage available suballocated funds.
Removing obsolete set-asides and collapsing redundant provisions will reduce paperwork and decision complexity, which could speed obligation/transfer decisions and accelerate delivery of transportation projects.
Clarified funding and suballocation language will make it easier for MPOs and local transit planners to determine available funds for local projects and services.
Rural and urban communities and some transit projects could lose funding if a previously dedicated set-aside is eliminated, reducing resources for programs that relied on that set-aside.
State and local agencies will likely face short-term compliance costs and confusion as they update plans, administrative rules, and cross-references to match renumbering and revised statutory language.
Striking specific paragraphs could narrow statutory protections or conditions that guided fund transfers, potentially reducing safeguards or flexibility that had governed how funds were used or transferred.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes a subsection of the Surface Transportation Block Grant statute and updates related cross‑references and conforming provisions.
Representative · R-PA
Removes a subsection of the Surface Transportation Block Grant program statute and updates related cross-references and list structures across several highway code provisions. The bill is a technical, conforming amendment: it deletes a specific subsection, renumbers adjacent subsections, and adjusts headings and internal references so the statutory text reads consistently. The change does not create new funding, new programs, or new eligibility rules on its face; it reorganizes existing statutory language and collapses references to the eliminated subsection so related provisions reference the correct text and lists.
Official title: To amend section 133 of title 23, United States Code, to remove a certain State funding set-aside for transportation alternative programs, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 16, 2026 by Scott Perry · Last progress April 16, 2026