BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 29, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Jim Frazier, Chair
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24 (Beall) - As Introduced August 2, 2016
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
SUBJECT: Federal transportation funding
SUMMARY: Urges Congress and the President to fully fund the
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)
program and to work together to find a long-term, sustainable
funding solution for transportation. Specifically, this
resolution:
1)Makes findings and declarations regarding the degraded
condition of the state's transportation infrastructure, the
economic importance of California's goods movement system, and
the benefits to be realized from an expanded public
transportation system.
2)Commends Congress and the President of the United States for
enacting the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation
Act (FAST Act) to provide stability and reliability in federal
transportation funding over the next five years.
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3)Urges Congress and the President to fully fund the TIGER
program at a level of $525 million in 2017 to provide
additional critical transportation investments.
4)Urges Congress and the President to find a long-term,
sustainable funding solution to restore the lost purchasing
power of the federal fuel excise tax.
FISCAL EFFECT: None, this resolution is keyed non-fiscal by the
Legislative Counsel.
COMMENTS: The highly competitive federal TIGER grant program
supports innovative projects, which are difficult to fund
through traditional federal programs. Since 2009, the TIGER
grant program has provided a combined $5.1 billion to 421
projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and tribal communities. These
federal funds leverage money from private sector partners,
states, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations,
and transit agencies.
Demand for the 2016 TIGER grant program continued to far exceed
available funds. To illustrate, the United State Department of
Transportation (Department) received 585 eligible applications
from all 50 states, and several U.S. territories, tribal
communities, cities, and towns throughout the United States,
collectively requesting over $9.3 billion in funding. During
the previous seven rounds, the Department received more than
7,300 applications requesting more than $143 billion for
transportation projects.
The TIGER program is slated to be funded at the $525 million
level for Fiscal Year 2017. This resolution encourages Congress
and the President to follow through with this commitment and
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also to find a long-term, sustainable funding solution to the
nation's under-funded transportation infrastructure system.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916)
319-2093
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