[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5024 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5024

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow any recipient of 
  urbanized area formula grant funds to use such funds for operating 
 costs of equipment and facilities used in public transportation, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 22, 2025

   Mr. Lawler (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bresnahan, and Ms. 
 Malliotakis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow any recipient of 
  urbanized area formula grant funds to use such funds for operating 
 costs of equipment and facilities used in public transportation, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transit Funding Flexibility Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF URBANIZED AREA FORMULA GRANT FUNDS FOR PUBLIC 
              TRANSPORTATION OPERATING COSTS.

    Section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(D) by striking ``in an 
                urbanized area with a population of fewer than 200,000 
                individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the 
                Census''; and
                    (B) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3);
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(L) by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ``the 
                certification'' and inserting ``each certification'';
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3); and
                    (D) by inserting before paragraph (3), as so 
                redesignated, the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) the recipient, not later than the 30th day of the 
        first full fiscal year after a recipient first receives grant 
        funds under this section and each fiscal year thereafter, shall 
        submit to the Secretary a certification that, for the fiscal 
        year, the recipient will maintain effort with respect to any 
        operating costs of equipment and facilities for which grant 
        funds are used; and''; and
            (3) in subsection (f)(3)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary may'' and inserting 
                ``(A) in general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                Secretary may''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(B) Failure to maintain effort.--If, in 
                conducting a review, audit, and evaluation under this 
                subsection, the Secretary finds that a recipient failed 
                to maintain effort during a fiscal year as certified to 
                under subsection (c)(2), the Secretary shall reduce by 
                \1/3 \any amount such recipient is to receive under 
                this section in the next fiscal year.''.
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