Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

Bill: 108-hr-3994
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accident prevention
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alcoholism
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Appalachia
Appellate courts
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Authorization
Automation
Bicycles
Biological warfare
Black colleges
Bonds
Boundaries
Bridges
Building materials
Business records
Buy American
Canada
Capital investments
Car pools
Carbon monoxide
Chemical warfare
Child health
Child safety
Commerce
Commuting
Competitive bidding
Compressed natural gas
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Transportation
Diabetes
Diesel motor
Directories
Disabled
Disaster relief
Disasters
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug testing
Drugs and employment
Drunk driving
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric vehicles
Electronic data interchange
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Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
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Employee benefit plans
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Employee training
Energy
Energy conservation
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Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental research
Excise tax
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal libraries
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federally-assisted loans
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Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Freight
Freight forwarders
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Graduate education
Health
High technology
Higher education
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway planning
Highway use tax
Household moving
Housing and Community Development
Hydrogen
Imports
Indian lands
Industrial engineering
Information networks
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Insulin
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Intermodal transportation
International Affairs
International cooperation
Internet
Interstate commerce
Interstate compacts
Interstate highway system
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Land use
Latin America
Law
Liability (Law)
Light rail transit
Limited access highways
Liquefied natural gas
Local employees
Local finance
Magnetic levitation vehicles
Management information systems
Maps
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Mexico
Military base closures
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle registration
Motor vehicle safety
Motorcycles
National parks
Native Americans
Natural gas vehicles
New Jersey
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Ozone
Parking facilities
Pedestrians
Performance measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Puerto Rico
Railroad commuting traffic
Railroad engineering
Railroad safety
Recidivists
Relocation
Remote sensing
Research and development
Research centers
Road construction
Safety appliances
Scenic byways
Scholarships
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Seat belts
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Service stations
Shipbuilding
Ships
Small business
Smog
Social Welfare
Space activities
Sports and Recreation
Standards
State employees
State finance
State laws
Strategic planning
Students
Subways
Surveys
Tax evasion
Taxation
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Telecommuting
Terminals (Transportation)
Terrorism
Toll roads
Tourism
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Traffic signs and signals
Trails
Transportation and the aged
Transportation and the disabled
Transportation engineering
Transportation of hazardous substances
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Transportation workers
Travel costs
Truck drivers
Trucking
Trucks
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
Walking
Washington State
Web sites
Welfare recipients
Wildlife refuges
Women
Women in business
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users - Reauthorizes the Federal-aid surface transportation program through FY 2009. Reauthorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for: (1) specified highway (including highway safety) programs; (2) research and technology; (3) motor carrier safety; and (4) transportation research. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a National Commission on Future Revenue Sources to Support the HTF. Establishes: (1) a National Commission on the Future of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate Defense Highways; and (2) a Commission on Intelligent Transportation Systems Procurement Policy. Requires States with an urbanized area population of over 200,000 to obligate specified funds for congestion relief.
 
Federal Public Transportation Act of 2004 - Sets forth revised provisions governing public transportation funding and the Secretary's authority to make specified grants, including grants for capital projects, planning, and transit and for commercial driver's license program improvements. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish programs involving: (1) long-term bridge performance; (2) innovative highway safety technologies; (3) freight planning capacity building; (4) freight transportation research; (5) future strategic highway research; (6) surface transportation congestion solutions research; and (7) commercial remote sensing products and spatial information technologies.
 
Intelligent Transportation Systems Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary to conduct an ongoing intelligent system transportation program to research, develop, and operationally test and advance nationwide deployment of intelligent transportation systems as a component of the U.S. surface transportation systems.
 
Incorporates Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration planning provisions.
 
 Reauthorizes the hazardous materials transportation program. 
 
Makes the guaranteed funding levels provided under this Act dependent on identifying additional budgetary resources. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-24
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-03-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Introduced in House