1938 Federal-Aid Highway Act
Text of Public Law 584 of the 75th Congress, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938.
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1936 Federal-Aid Highway Amendments
Text of Public Law 686 of the 74th Congress, the Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1936.
1934 Hayden-Cartwright Act
Text of Public Law 393 of the 73rd Congress, which provided an additional $200 million in appropriations and $250 million in contract authority for the federal-aid highway program. Section 12 penalized states that divert highway…
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act
Text of Public Law 67 of the 73rd Congress, title II of which created a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works whose Administrator would take charge of all federal public works policy. Provided an additional…
1932 Emergency Relief and Construction Act
Provided an immediate $300 million in funding for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for immediate employment relief, to be repaid by states to the RFC out of future federal-aid highway apportionments.
1930 Federal-Aid Highways Amendments Act
Text of Public Law 179 of the 70th Congress, providing additional federal-aid highway funds for fiscal years 1932 and 1933.
Financing Federal-Aid Highways – 1999 Edition
FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1998 TEA21 authorization law.
Financing Federal-Aid Highways – 1983 Edition
FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1982 authorization law.
FY 1931 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Emergency Construction
Provided an additional $80 million for the federal-aid highway program, $3 million for roads on public lands, and $3 million for forest highways as part of a program for emergency construction of public works.
1928 Federal-Aid Highways Amendments Act
Text of Public Law 458 of the 70th Congress.
1927 Federal-Aid Highway Amendments Act
Text of Public Law 773 of the 69th Congress.
1926 Federal-Aid Highways Amendments Act
Text of Public Law 411 of the 69th Congress.