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S. 1168: BRIDGE Act

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S. 1168: BRIDGE Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-05-17 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-05-17 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

BRIDGE Act

Plain summary

Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment Act or the BRIDGE Act This bill establishes the Infrastructure Financing Authority (IFA) as a wholly-owned government corporation to provide direct loans and loan guarantees to eligible entities to facilitate the construction, consolidation, alteration, or repair of transportation, water, and energy infrastructure projects. Such projects shall have costs reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed $50 million ($10 million for rural infrastructure projects). The bill establishes an Office of Technical and Rural Assistance and an Office of Special Inspector General for the IFA. The bill prohibits IFA financing of a project if: it is private or does not create a public benefit, or the loan applicant is unable to demonstrate a sufficient revenue stream. The bill establishes within the IFA the Project Delivery Task Force to establish and coordinate a permitting timetable for the environmental review of a project. The Chief Executive Officer of the IFA shall: establish fees with respect to loans and loan guarantees that are sufficient to cover the IFA's administrative costs; and take actions to make the IFA a self-sustaining entity, with administrative and federal credit subsidy costs fully funded by fees and risk premiums on loans and loan guarantees. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $15 billion to $16 billion the aggregate amount of proceeds from tax-exempt facility bonds that the Department of Transportation shall allocate among qualified highway or surface freight transfer facilities.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

BRIDGE Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] · 9 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), John Cornyn (R-TX)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] reported raising $20.2 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Words on this page, explained (2)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Bond
A way to borrow money. A government sells bonds to raise money now and promises to pay it back with interest over time. Bonds repaid from taxes often need voter approval.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-s1168 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115