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The bill increases transparency and performance-based prioritization of transportation projects—helping accountability and cost-effectiveness—but raises administrative costs, risks exposing sensitive project details that could delay work, and may bias choices against important but hard-to-measure local and equity outcomes.
State and local governments (and the public) must publish project performance scores and estimated benefits, increasing transparency and public accountability for major transportation investments.
Commuters and communities receive clearer information to compare how projects contribute to statewide targets and national goals, helping residents hold officials accountable and make informed local choices.
Linking project selection to performance measures encourages States to prioritize projects with clearer, measurable benefits, which can improve cost-effectiveness for taxpayers.
Projects that produce important but hard-to-quantify benefits (like local safety improvements or equity outcomes) may be deprioritized if scoring favors easily measured metrics, harming underserved communities.
Publishing detailed project coordinates and selection rationales could expose sensitive information, provoke local opposition or legal challenges, and delay project delivery.
States will face additional 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 other tasks.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires annual public reports and performance scoring for STIP projects that expand the system and cost more than $10M, and integrates progress reviews into STIP and long‑range planning.
Official title: Amend title 23, United States Code, to require States to make publicly available information on the selection of certain projects, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 13, 2026 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks · Last progress January 13, 2026
Requires States to publish an annual online report listing major transportation projects in their STIP that expand the system and cost more than $10 million, and to score those projects against state and national performance goals. After the first report, States must incorporate progress reviews and assessments of cost-effectiveness into their STIP and long-range statewide transportation plan updates. The reporting includes project scores tied to long-range plan performance measures and national goals, estimated benefits, the year first listed in the STIP, a brief selection rationale with approximate coordinates, and a summary of scoring metrics; the new report can satisfy an existing related Federal reporting requirement.