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The bill increases transparency and performance-based prioritization of transportation projects—potentially improving accountability and cost-effectiveness—but it creates administrative costs, risks project delays from greater disclosure, and may bias funding away from hard-to-measure local and equity-focused benefits.
State and local governments, commuters, and communities will get mandatory publication of project performance scores and estimated benefits, increasing transparency and accountability so residents can compare projects' contributions to statewide and national goals.
Taxpayers and decision-makers will be better able to prioritize investments because linking project selections to performance measures can improve cost-effectiveness and encourage projects with clearer measurable benefits.
State governments will face added administrative costs and staff burdens to develop, score, publish, and review detailed annual reports for covered projects, which may require new funding or divert resources from delivery.
Publishing project coordinates and selection rationales could expose sensitive details, prompting local opposition or legal challenges that delay project delivery and increase project risk for state and local governments.
Communities with benefits that are harder to quantify (e.g., local safety, equity, small rural improvements) may be deprioritized if scoring favors easily measured outcomes, reducing investments that address local justice and equity goals.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires states to publish annual online reports scoring large transportation expansion projects (> $10M) against plan performance measures and federal goals and to review project progress in STIPs and long-range plans.
Requires each State to publish an annual online report identifying large transportation expansion projects in its STIP (cost > $10 million) and to score each project against the State’s long-range plan performance measures and federal national goals; the first report is due within one year of enactment. After the first report, States must include reviews of project progress, projected benefits, and cost-effectiveness in subsequent STIPs and long-range plan reviews. The reports can also satisfy an existing federal reporting requirement.
Introduced January 13, 2026 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks · Last progress January 13, 2026