Title: Road User Charge Advancement Act of 2019
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Road User Charge Advancement Act of 2019
This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2025 the Department of Transportation's (DOT's) surface transportation system funding alternatives program. Under the program, DOT provides grants to states to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.
Specifically, the bill

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5449 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5449

To amend the FAST Act to reauthorize the surface transportation system 
         funding alternatives program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 17, 2019

Mr. Blumenauer (for himself and Mr. Lowenthal) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the FAST Act to reauthorize the surface transportation system 
         funding alternatives 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 ``Road User Charge Advancement Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FUNDING ALTERNATIVES.

    Section 6020 of the FAST Act (23 U.S.C. 503 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) To test solutions to ensure the privacy and security 
        of data collected for the purpose of implementing a user-based 
        alternative revenue mechanism.'';
            (2) in subsection (g) by striking ``50'' and inserting 
        ``80'';
            (3) in subsection (i)--
                    (A) by striking ``2 years after'' and inserting ``1 
                year after'';
                    (B) by striking ``every 2 years'' and inserting 
                ``annually''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``and a determination of the 
                characteristics of the most successful mechanisms with 
                the highest potential for future widespread 
                deployment'' before the period;
            (4) in subsection (j)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2) by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) $20,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section 
        for fiscal year 2021;
            ``(4) $25,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section 
        for fiscal year 2022;
            ``(5) $25,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section 
        for fiscal year 2023;
            ``(6) $30,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section 
        for fiscal year 2024; and
            ``(7) $35,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section 
        for fiscal year 2025.''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Special Consideration.--In selecting grant recipients under 
this section during fiscal years 2021 through 2025, the Secretary shall 
provide special consideration to proposed projects that--
            ``(1) carry out activities not previously carried out by 
        the applicant that advance the knowledge and practice of 
        surface transportation system funding alternatives; or
            ``(2) collect revenue from pilot project participants.''.
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