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The bill trades a modest, short-term administrative burden and temporary confusion for state/local agencies and contractors in exchange for clearer statutory organization and reduced long-term legal ambiguity in administering FTA grants.
State and local governments (and their grant recipients) will have clearer statutory numbering and cross-references for Federal Transit Administration grants, reducing long-term legal ambiguity when administering and complying with grant requirements.
State and local agencies and grant recipients may face temporary confusion about where requirements now appear in statute until regulations, guidance, and internal procedures are updated.
The Department of Transportation and related entities will incur administrative costs to update regulations, guidance, grant documents, and contractor materials to reflect the renumbering and removals.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes technical deletions and renumbering in two federal transit statutes (49 U.S.C. §§ 5323(h) and 5309) and provides a short title; no funding or new duties.
Official title: Amend title 49, United States Code, to allow certain funds to be used for incremental costs of incorporating art into facilities, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 21, 2026 by Mazie Hirono · Last progress April 21, 2026
Makes narrow, technical edits to two provisions of federal transit law without creating new programs, changing funding, or imposing new duties. It provides a short title and revises wording in 49 U.S.C. §§ 5323(h) and 5309 by removing a paragraph, renumbering others, and deleting a subsection, which are primarily codification/clarifying changes.