This information is arranged into five roughly chronological areas:
– Congressional hearings on MAP-21 reauthorization.
– The Administration’s GROW AMERICA proposal.
– The Senate’s DRIVE Act.
– The House’s STRR Act.
– The conference agreement (the FAST Act).
Congressional hearings on MAP-21 reauthorization.
- House T&I hearing on “Building the Groundwork for Surface Transportation Reauthorization” (January 14, 2014).
- House T&I hearing on “Improving the Effectiveness of the Federal Surface Transportation Safety Grant Programs” (January 28, 2014).
- Senate EPW hearing on “MAP-21 Reauthorization: The Economic Performance of Maintaining Federal Investment in Our Transportation Infrastructure” (February 12, 2014)
- House T&I hearing on “Improving the Nation’s Highway Freight Network” (February 27, 2014).
- Senate Banking hearing on “MAP-21 Preauthorization: the Federal Role and Current Challenges to Public Transportation” (March 6, 2014)
- House T&I hearing on “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Implementation of MAP-21” (March 12, 2014).
- Senate EPW hearing on “MAP-21 Reauthorization: State and Local Perspectives on Transportation Priorities and Funding” (March 27, 2014).
- Senate Finance hearing on “New Routes for Funding and Financing Highways and Transit” (May 6, 2014)
- Senate Commerce hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Progress, Challenges and Next Steps” (May 7, 2014)
- Senate Commerce hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Local Perspectives on Moving America” (May 15, 2014)
- Senate Banking hearing on “Bringing our Transit Infrastructure to a State of Good Repair” (May 22, 2014)
- Senate Commerce hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Examining the Safety and Effectiveness of our Transportation Systems” (June 3, 2014)
- Senate EPW hearing on “The Importance of MAP-21 Reauthorization: Federal and State Perspectives” (January 28, 2015)
- House T&I hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill: Laying the Foundation for U.S. Economic Growth and Job Creation” – Part 1″ (February 11, 2015)
- Senate EPW hearing on “The Importance of MAP-21 Reauthorization: Perspectives from Owners, Operators and Users of the System” (February 25, 2015)
- Senate Commerce hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization – Oversight and Reform of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration” (March 4, 2015)
- House T&I hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill: Laying the Foundation for U.S. Economic Growth and Job Creation” – Part 2″ (March 17, 2015)
- Senate Banking hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Building on the Successes of MAP-21 to Deliver Safe, Efficient, and Effective Public Transportation Services and Projects – Part 1” (April 21, 2015)
- Senate Banking hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Building on the Successes of MAP-21 to Deliver Safe, Efficient, and Effective Public Transportation Services and Projects – Part 2” (April 23, 2015)
The Administration’s GROW AMERICA proposal.
- Legislative text of the GROW AMERICA Act. (March 30, 2015)
- Section-by-section summary of the GROW AMERICA Act. (March 30, 2015)
- Bill summaries by modal administration – FHWA, FMCSA, FRA, FTA, NHTSA, OST, and PHMSA.
- Fact sheets from USDOT – overview, environmental benefits, freight mobility, critical investments, highways and bridges, innovative financing, ladders of opportunity, local decision-making, project delivery, rural needs, transportation safety, public transportation, and workforce development.
- Funding summary table from the USDOT FY 2016 Budget Highlights.
- State-by-state funding total factsheets from USDOT.
Eno Transportation Weekly news coverage of the GROW AMERICA proposal (ETW subscribers and Eno members only):
The Senate’s DRIVE Act
S. 1647 (highway titles of the DRIVE Act – EPW Committee)
S. 1732 (safety and rail titles of the DRIVE Act – Commerce Committee)
H.R. 22, the DRIVE Act (all titles of the bill, including Banking and Finance that were not marked up in committee).
- 1st version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15730).
- 2nd version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15738).
- 3rd version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15748).
- 4th version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15765).
- 5th version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15807).
- Final version of the complete DRIVE Act substitute (EDW15824).
- Congressional Budget Office cost estimate of the DRIVE Act as introduced on July 24, 2015.
- Senate floor debate on H.R. 22 – pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4, pt5, pt6, pt7, pt8, pt9, pt10.
- Amendments filed in the Senate to the DRIVE Act.
- ETW Summary Tables for the DRIVE Act as passed by the Senate.
- Text of H.R. 22, the DRIVE Act, as passed by the Senate on July 30, 2015.
The House’s STRR Act
H.R. 3763, the STRR Act – House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee consideration
Provisions from other House committees
- Text of the discussion draft of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s reauthorization of NHTSA vehicle safety programs.
- Text of the committee print of the Science Committee’s proposed research provisions of a surface transportation bill within its jurisdiction (as approved in subcommittee on September 10, 2015).
House Floor consideration of the STRR/DRIVE Act
Conference Negotiations and Agreement – the FAST Act
- Comparison of the CBO scores of HTF contract authority under DRIVE and STRR (Eno members and ETW subscribers only).
- House STRR Act vs Senate DRIVE Act comparison tables. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)
- List of House and Senate conferees on H.R. 22, the DRIVE Act. (Complete with names and jurisdictional limitations given by the Speaker on November 17.)*
- Letter to DRIVE Act conferees from transportation and construction industry groups saying that they would rather have a shorter bill with higher annual funding levels than a six-year bill. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)
- Letter to DRIVE Act conferees from Secretary Foxx dated November 13 expressing the views of the Obama Administration on the House and Senate versions of the bill. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)*
- Letter to DRIVE Act conferees from the National Governors Association.
- Video of the conference committee meeting on H.R. 22 on November 18.
- Conference report to accompany H.R. 22, the FAST Act, as filed in the House on December 1, 2015 (H. Rept. 114-357).
- Congressional Budget Office cost estimate for the FAST Act conference report.
- One-page summary table of FAST Act “pay-fors” and transfers based on the CBO cost estimate.
- Section-by-section summary of the FAST Act conference agreement. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)
- 13-page summary of the conference report prepared by T&I Committee staff.
- Summary overview of the FAST Act prepared by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
- Table of funding authorizations in the FAST Act conference agreement.
- Table of growth rates for highways, transit and safety in the FAST Act conference agreement.
- One-page PDF tables of highway formula apportionments under the FAST Act conference agreement – state by state totals by fiscal year, and state by state cumulative five-year totals by program.
- Excel spreadsheets showing estimated highway apportionments under the FAST Act – state-by-state by FY and program (excluding ferries), ferry boat apportionments, and STBGP sub-allocations to metro areas for FY16, FY17, FY18, FY19 and FY20. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)
- One-page PDF table of mass transit formula apportionments under the FAST Act conference agreement, organized by state and fiscal year.
- Excel spreadsheet showing detailed year-by-year mass transit apportionments by program, organized by state. (Eno members and ETW subscribers only.)
- Floor debate on the FAST Act conference report – House debate part 1 and part 2 – Senate floor debate.
- The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 (the FAST Act) – text of the enrolled bill presented to President Obama and signed into law on December 4, 2015.
Everything that has happened related to the FAST Act since the moment it was signed into law on December 4, 2015 – notices of actual funding apportionments, announcements of how to apply for grant programs, new regulations required by the law, and other announcements – is now on our FAST Act Reference Page.