Highway Relief Act

Bill: 116-hr-8510
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2020-10-02
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways

Transportation programs funding
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Highway Relief Act </b></p> <p>This bill provides authority through FY2022 for the Department of Transportation to increase the federal cost share to 100% for federal-aid highway projects.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8510 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 2, 2020 Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To modify the Federal share for Federal-aid highway projects for fiscal years 2021 and 2022, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Highway Relief Act . 2. Temporary Federal share for Federal-aid highway projects Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal share of the cost of a project under title 23, United States Code, for which amounts are made available during fiscal year 2021 and 2022 may be up to 100 percent, at the discretion of the Secretary of Transportation.