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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1124 
Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for the TIGER 
Discretionary Grant program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2013 
Ms. WATERS (for herself, Ms. BASS, Mr. HONDA, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, 
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, 
Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. RUSH, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 
BROWN of Florida, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. CLAY, Ms. LEE of 
California, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. HAHN, Mr. CARSON of In-
diana, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Mr. POCAN, Mr. TONKO, Ms. EDWARDS, 
Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. ROYBAL- 
ALLARD, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. LEWIS, 
Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. SIRES, 
Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. HECK 
of Washington, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. KEATING, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, 
Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. NADLER, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, 
Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. LOFGREN, 
Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Mr. WATT, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. ENYART, Mr. ELLISON, and 
Ms. MENG) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budg-
et, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for 
the TIGER Discretionary Grant program, and for other 
purposes. 
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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 ‘‘TIGER Grants for 
Job Creation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The economy is struggling to recover from 
the recession. The unemployment rate is nearly 8 
percent nationwide and is even higher in minority 
and disadvantaged communities. 
(2) The American Society of Civil Engineers’ 
2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure esti-
mated that there is a $549,500,000,000 shortfall in 
investments in roads and bridges and an additional 
$190,100,000,000 shortfall in investments in tran-
sit. 
(3) TIGER, formally known as the Transpor-
tation Investment Generating Economic Recovery 
(TIGER) grant program, is a nationwide competitive 
grant program that creates jobs by funding invest-
ments in transportation infrastructure by States, 
local governments, and transit agencies. 
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(4) TIGER funds projects that will have a sig-
nificant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, 
or a region. 
(5) In distributing grants under TIGER, the 
Secretary of Transportation is required to ensure an 
equitable geographic distribution of funds, a balance 
in addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, 
and investments in a variety of modes of transpor-
tation. 
(6) Past appropriations for TIGER are not suf-
ficient to address the need for investments in trans-
portation infrastructure in communities throughout 
the United States as the amounts only fund a small 
fraction of the transportation infrastructure projects 
for which TIGER grant applications have been re-
ceived. 
(7) TIGER received an appropriation of 
$500,000,000 in fiscal year 2012. 
(8) The President requested an appropriation of 
$500,000,000 for TIGER in fiscal year 2013. 
(9) The Secretary of Transportation has been 
unable to organize a competition for TIGER grants 
in 2013 due to the uncertainty surrounding seques-
tration and fiscal year 2013 appropriations. 
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(10) Restricting appropriations for TIGER 
through the use of arbitrary budget caps or seques-
tration undermines economic recovery and job cre-
ation efforts; disrupts planning by States, local gov-
ernments, and transit agencies; and leaves critical 
infrastructure needs unmet. 
(11) Emergency supplemental appropriations 
for TIGER, provided in addition to other appropria-
tions and not subject to sequestration, will improve 
transportation 
infrastructure 
and 
create 
jobs 
throughout the United States without reducing 
funding for other domestic priorities. 
(12) An emergency supplemental appropriation 
of $500,000,000 for TIGER to be made available in 
fiscal year 2013 and an additional emergency sup-
plemental appropriation of $500,000,000 to be made 
available in fiscal year 2014 will allow the Secretary 
of Transportation to begin immediately to organize 
new competitions for TIGER grants and allow 
States, local governments, and transit agencies to 
prepare grant applications, thus ensuring an effi-
cient use of funds and timely job creation. 
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SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR TIGER DIS-
CRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM. 
The following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fis-
cal year 2013: 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Infrastruc-
ture Investments’’ in accordance with the provisions under 
this heading in title I of division C of Public Law 112– 
55, $1,000,000,000, of which $500,000,000 shall become 
available on the date of the enactment of this section, and 
$500,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2013: 
Provided, That the amount under this heading shall re-
main available until September 30, 2014: Provided further, 
That the amount under this heading is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that such amount shall 
be available only if the President subsequently so des-
ignates such amount and transmits such designation to 
the Congress. 
SEC. 4. EXEMPTION FROM SEQUESTRATION. 
The appropriation in section 3 shall be exempt from 
any sequestration under section 251A of the Balanced 
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Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
U.S.C. 901a). 
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