Sponsor
Scott Perry
Representative · R-PA
Representative · R-PA
The bill tightens and clarifies federal rail and transit loan eligibility and trims reporting requirements—improving certainty and focusing funding on core infrastructure while restricting federal support for transit-oriented and multimodal development, which may make mixed-use projects harder to finance and slow innovation and local revitalization.
State and local governments, transit agencies, and rail operators get clearer, narrower eligibility rules for TIFIA and RRIF loans, reducing uncertainty and simplifying loan application review and future project planning.
TIFIA loan funds will be focused more on core transportation infrastructure (tracks, stations, roads) rather than commercial/residential development, which can accelerate transportation-specific projects.
State DOTs and Metropolitan Planning Organizations face fewer statutory reporting and procedural obligations, reducing administrative burden on agencies responsible for planning and oversight.
Local governments, developers, small businesses, and homeowners will lose access to TIFIA/RRIF financing for commercial or residential components of transit-oriented development (TOD), making mixed-use transit projects harder or more expensive to finance and potentially slowing local economic revitalization.
Applicants who submitted or planned TOD-inclusive applications before enactment may face financing gaps and project delays because the changes apply to applications on or after enactment.
Removing reporting and pilot requirements and narrowing statutory authorities reduces data collection, oversight, and coordinated planning capacity for MPOs and state agencies, making it harder to evaluate transit innovations and potentially slowing deployment of improvements.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Removes transit-oriented development from TIFIA and RRIF eligibility and deletes subsection (b) of the metropolitan planning statute, narrowing program eligibility and planning law.
Official title: To amend title 23 and title 49, United States Code, to remove transit-oriented development projects as projects eligible for assistance under the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program and the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 9, 2026 by Scott Perry · Last progress April 9, 2026
This bill removes transit-oriented development (TOD) projects — defined as commercial or residential components — from eligibility for two federal transportation loan programs (TIFIA and RRIF) and deletes a specific subsection from the metropolitan transportation planning statute. Changes take effect for loan or program applications submitted on or after enactment, narrowing the types of projects that can receive federal credit assistance and removing a prior statutory provision in metropolitan planning law. The result is reduced federal finance support and a statutory deletion that affects metropolitan planning organizations, States, and public transit operators by eliminating a previously existing provision in the metropolitan planning statute. No new funding, new agencies, or deadlines are created; the bill primarily narrows program eligibility and statutory text.