I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1107
To reauthorize funding for maintenance of public roads used by school buses 
serving certain Indian reservations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2003
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico (for himself, Mr. MATHESON, and Mr. RENZI) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To reauthorize funding for maintenance of public roads used 
by school buses serving certain Indian reservations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Indian School Bus 
Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL CONTRACT AU-
THORITY FOR STATES WITH INDIAN RES-
ERVATIONS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY TO STATES.—Not later than Octo-
ber 1 of each fiscal year, funds made available under sub-
section (e) for the fiscal year shall be made available by 
the Secretary of Transportation, in equal amounts, to each 
State that has within the boundaries of the State all or 
part of an Indian reservation having a land area of 
10,000,000 acres or more. 
(b) AVAILABILITY TO ELIGIBLE COUNTIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each fiscal year, each coun-
ty that is located in a State to which funds are made 
available under subsection (a), and that has in the 
county a public road described in paragraph (2), 
shall be eligible to apply to the State for all or a 
portion of the funds made available to the State 
under this section to be used by the county to main-
tain such public roads. 
(2) ROADS.—A public road referred to in para-
graph (1) is a public road that—
(A) is within, is adjacent to, or provides 
access to an Indian reservation described in 
subsection (a); 
(B) is used by a school bus to transport 
children to or from a school or Headstart pro-
gram carried out under the Head Start Act (42 
U.S.C. 9831 et seq.); and 
(C) is maintained by the county in which 
the public road is located.
(3) ALLOCATION
AMONG
ELIGIBLE
COUN-
TIES.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), each State that receives 
funds under subsection (a) shall provide directly 
to each county that applies for funds the 
amount that the county requests in the applica-
tion. 
(B) ALLOCATION AMONG ELIGIBLE COUN-
TIES.—If the total amount of funds applied for 
under this section by eligible counties in a State 
exceeds the amount of funds available to the 
State, the State shall equitably allocate the 
funds among the eligible counties that apply for 
funds. 
(c) SUPPLEMENTARY FUNDING.—For each fiscal 
year, the Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that 
funding made available under this section supplements 
(and does not supplant)—
(1) any obligation of funds by the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs for road maintenance programs on 
Indian reservations; and 
(2) any funding provided by a State to a county 
for road maintenance programs in the county.
(d) USE OF UNALLOCATED FUNDS.—Any portion of 
the funds made available to a State under this section that 
is not made available to counties within 1 year after the 
funds are made available to the State shall be apportioned 
among the States in accordance with section 104(b) of 
title 23, United States Code. 
(e) FUNDING.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out this 
section—
(A) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2004 and 2005; 
(B) $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2006 and 2007; and 
(C) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2008 and 2009. 
(2) 
CONTRACT
AUTHORITY.—Funds 
made 
available to carry out this section shall be available 
for obligation in the same manner as if the funds 
were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
States Code.
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