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The bill clarifies statutory structure to reduce long‑run legal ambiguity for transit grants, at the cost of short‑term implementation confusion and administrative expense for government agencies and grant partners.
State and local governments, the Federal Transit Administration, and grant recipients will have clearer statutory numbering and cross‑references, reducing legal ambiguity and making grant administration, interpretation, and compliance easier.
State and local governments and grant recipients may face temporary confusion or disruption while agencies, recipients, and partners adjust to removed or renumbered provisions until regulations, guidance, and documents are updated.
The Department of Transportation and its contractors will incur administrative costs to update regulations, guidance, grant documents, and IT/systems to reflect the statutory changes.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Performs technical edits to two transit statutes in title 49 U.S. Code: deletes and renumbers specified paragraphs and subsections and adds a short citation clause.
Introduced April 21, 2026 by Mazie Hirono · Last progress April 21, 2026
Makes only technical edits to two provisions of federal transit law and adds a short citation provision. It does not appropriate funds, create new duties, or materially change program funding; the changes remove and renumber certain statutory paragraphs and subsections in title 49 of the U.S. Code.