I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4058 
To grant to a State with an unemployment rate that is equal to or greater 
than 125 percent of the national unemployment rate authority to transfer 
funds among programs made available to such State by title 23, United 
States Code, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 1, 2007 
Mr. HOEKSTRA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To grant to a State with an unemployment rate that is 
equal to or greater than 125 percent of the national 
unemployment rate authority to transfer funds among 
programs made available to such State by title 23, 
United States Code, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Maximizing the Use 
of Federal Funds for Job Creation Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRANSFER AUTHORITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(c), a State with an unemployment rate that is equal to 
or greater than 125 percent of the national unemployment 
rate is authorized to transfer, without limitation, any 
funds apportioned and any funds allocated to such State 
from amounts made available from the Highway Trust 
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) to any of 
the apportionments for the programs designated in sub-
section (b). 
(b) DESIGNATED PROGRAMS.—The following pro-
grams, authorized by title 23, United States Code, are the 
programs the apportionments of which funds may be 
transferred to under subsection (a): 
(1) The interstate maintenance program under 
section 119. 
(2) The National Highway System under sec-
tion 103(b). 
(3) The surface transportation program under 
section 133. 
(4) The highway bridge replacement and reha-
bilitation program under section 144. 
(c) EXEMPT PROGRAMS.—The funds made available 
for the highway safety improvement programs authorized 
by section 148 and chapter 4 of title 23, United States 
Code, shall not be subject to transfer under subsection (a). 
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(d) DURATION.—The transfer authority provided by 
subsection (a) shall remain in effect for a period of two 
years for a State or until the date on the State’s unem-
ployment rate is less than 125 percent of the national un-
employment rate, whichever occurs later. 
(e) NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT RATE DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘national employment rate’’ means 
the most recent rate of unemployment announced each 
month by Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department 
of Labor based upon data from the current populations 
survey of households conducted for the Bureau by the Bu-
reau of the Census of the Department of Commerce. 
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