Title: TIGER CUBS Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery for Cities Underfunded Because of Size Act of 2017 or the TIGER CUBS Act
This bill provides $500 million in supplemental FY2017 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for national infrastructure investments under a competitive grant program commonly known as the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. At least $100 million of the funds must be used for projects located in cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.
The funding provided by this bill is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. The emergency funding is exempt from discretionary spending limits and is only available if the President subsequently designates the amounts as an emergency and submits the designation to Congress.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 966 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 966

 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for the TIGER 
          discretionary grant program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2017

  Mr. Larsen of Washington (for himself, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. 
Ryan of Ohio, and Ms. Brownley of California) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in 
      addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for the TIGER 
          discretionary grant program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation Investment Generating 
Economic Recovery for Cities Underfunded Because of Size Act of 2017'' 
or the ``TIGER CUBS Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR TIGER GRANTS.

    The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fiscal year 2017:

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                  national infrastructure investments

    For an additional amount for ``National Infrastructure 
Investments'' in accordance with the provisions under this heading in 
title I of division L of Public Law 114-113, $500,000,000: Provided, 
That the amount under this heading shall remain available until 
September 30, 2019: Provided further, That not less than $100,000,000 
of the funds provided under this heading shall be for projects located 
in cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000: Provided further, 
That for a project described in the preceding proviso, the minimum 
grant amount shall be $2,000,000, and the Secretary of Transportation 
may provide a Federal share of costs in excess of 80 percent: Provided 
further, That the amount under this heading is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 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 designates such amount and transmits such designation 
to the Congress.
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