Title: Public Transportation Expansion Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Public Transportation Expansion Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Transit Administration to support access to affordable housing and enhanced mobility for residents in certain disadvantaged communities or low-income riders through grants for construction of new fixed guideway capital projects, construction of zero-emission bus rapid transit projects, or other public transportation projects.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5228 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5228

   To provide for competitive grants to support access to affordable 
housing and the enhancement of mobility for residents in disadvantaged 
                     communities or neighborhoods.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2021

   Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. 
 Bourdeaux, and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 
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


 
   To provide for competitive grants to support access to affordable 
housing and the enhancement of mobility for residents in disadvantaged 
                     communities or neighborhoods.

    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 ``Public Transportation Expansion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACCESS CONSTRUCTION GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
year 2022 such sums as may be necessary, to remain available until 
September 30, 2026, to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
and the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration for 
competitive grants to support access to affordable housing and the 
enhancement of mobility for residents in disadvantaged communities or 
neighborhoods, in persistent poverty communities, or for low-income 
riders generally.
    (b) Administration of Funds.--Funds made available under this 
section shall--
            (1) be available to recipients and subrecipients eligible 
        under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code; and
            (2) after allocation, be administered as if such funds were 
        provided under section 5307 of title 49, United States Code.
    (c) Eligible Activities.--Eligible activities for funds made 
available under this section shall be--
            (1) construction of a new fixed guideway capital project;
            (2) construction of a bus rapid transit project or a 
        corridor-based bus rapid transit project that utilizes zero-
        emission vehicles, including costs related to the acquisition 
        of such vehicles and related charging or fueling 
        infrastructure, or a collection of such projects; and
            (3) notwithstanding subsection (a)(1) of section 5307 of 
        such title, an expansion of the service area or the frequency 
        of service of recipients under such section, which may include 
        operational expenses, including the provision of fare-free or 
        reduced-fare service, or the acquisition of zero-emission 
        vehicles or infrastructure to expand service.
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