Title: Green Buses for Every Community Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Green Buses for Every Community Act
This bill requires at least 10% of funding made available in a fiscal year for the low or no emissions competitive grant program for buses and bus facilities to be distributed to projects serving predominantly low-income communities. The bill defines a low-income community as any population census tract if (1) the poverty rate for such tract is at least 20%; or (2) the tract is not located within a metropolitan area and the median family income for such tract does not exceed 80% of statewide median family income, or the tract is located within a metropolitan area and the median family income does not exceed the 80% or the metropolitan area median family income.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1152 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1152

To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to grants for buses 
              and bus facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2021

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to grants for buses 
              and bus facilities, 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 ``Green Buses for Every Community 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LOW INCOME COMMUNITY GRANTS.

    Section 5339(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(H) the term `low-income community' means any 
                population census tract if--
                            ``(i) the poverty rate for such tract is at 
                        least 20 percent; or
                            ``(ii) in the case of a tract--
                                    ``(I) not located within a 
                                metropolitan area, the median family 
                                income for such tract does not exceed 
                                80 percent of statewide median family 
                                income; or
                                    ``(II) located within a 
                                metropolitan area, the median family 
                                income for such tract does not exceed 
                                80 percent of the greater statewide 
                                median family income or the 
                                metropolitan area median family 
                                income.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Low and moderate community grants.--Not less than 10 
        percent of the amounts made available under this subsection in 
        a fiscal year shall be distributed to projects serving 
        predominantly low-income communities.''.
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