Sponsor
Robert F. Onder
Representative · R-MO
Representative · R-MO
The bill clarifies statutory citations and grant-condition language for state and local governments and applicants, which should reduce legal ambiguity, but it risks narrowing eligible loan uses and creates short-term implementation uncertainty until the exact text is published.
State and local governments will have clearer statutory citations for implementing allowable loan uses under the Surface Transportation Investment Act, reducing legal ambiguity and easing administration.
State and local government grant applicants will face clearer grant-condition language under 49 U.S.C. §22905, making it easier to understand and comply with requirements when applying for funds.
State and local governments and small-business applicants may lose access to certain previously eligible loan-funded projects if the changed cross-reference narrows permissible loan uses.
State and local governments may face short-term implementation uncertainty because the exact inserted text in §§116(d)(1)(B) and 22905(c)(2)(B) is unspecified until the final language is published.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Makes technical, formatting, and citation corrections to Title 49 USC; redirects one statutory cross-reference in the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021.
Official title: To make technical amendments to title 49, United States Code, as necessary to improve the Code.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Robert F. Onder · Last progress July 17, 2025
Makes nonsubstantive, technical, and formatting corrections to Title 49 of the U.S. Code (federal transportation law) to improve organization, punctuation, cross-references, headings, clause labeling, and certain phrase wording. One explicit change redirects a statutory cross-reference in the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021 from one subparagraph to another, which alters which listed loan use is referenced; otherwise the bill only reorganizes and reformats existing text without creating new programs, funding, or policy standards.