Title: A bill to provide for the use of additional funds for transportation projects that were affected by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide additional funding to certain transportation projects that were awarded competitive grants but require additional funds to complete such projects due to the effects of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
In providing additional funds, DOT shall provide an amount equal to not less than 10% of the total project costs.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4332 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4332

To provide for the use of additional funds for transportation projects 
  that were affected by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2020

  Ms. McSally introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the use of additional funds for transportation projects 
  that were affected by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 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. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall use any amounts made available to the 
Secretary for grant programs for covered projects, and not otherwise 
obligated, to provide additional funds to covered projects.
    (b) Amount.--In providing additional funds for a covered project 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall provide an amount equal to 
not less than 10 percent of the total project costs.
    (c) Federal Share.--Amounts made available for a covered project 
under subsection (a) shall not be counted toward the Federal share of 
the project.
    (d) Modifications to Agreements.--The Secretary of Transportation 
shall modify a grant agreement for a covered project as necessary to 
provide additional funds under subsection (a) in accordance with the 
amount determined under subsection (b).
    (e) Definition of Covered Project.--In this section, the term 
``covered project'' means a highway project, a public transportation 
project, a rural transportation project, or a tribal transportation 
project that--
            (1) during the period beginning on January 1, 2017, and 
        ending on the date of enactment of this Act--
                    (A) has been awarded a grant under a competitive 
                grant program of the Secretary of Transportation; or
                    (B) in the case of a new fixed guideway capital 
                project proposed to be carried out using a grant under 
                section 5309 of title 49, United States Code, advanced 
                to the engineering phase under subsection (g) of that 
                section; and
            (2) requires additional funding to complete the project due 
        to the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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