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H.R. 1849: Transportation Funding Fairness Act

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H.R. 1849: Transportation Funding Fairness Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-03-21 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-03-21 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Malinowski, Tom [D-NJ-7] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. 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.

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Official title

Transportation Funding Fairness Act

Plain summary

Transportation Funding Fairness Act This bill modifies the treatment of loans under the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act program and the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program in consideration for fixed guideway capital investment grants. Specifically, the bill permits a state or other obligator to make a determination whether loans under these programs are treated as a federal or non-federal share of a project; and requires the Department of Transportation to treat the proceeds of a loan that a state has elected to treat as a non-federal share of project costs as a local financial commitment, and not treat such proceeds as non-local sources of capital and operating financing.

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Official text

Transportation Funding Fairness Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Malinowski, Tom [D-NJ-7] · 11 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr1849 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116