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H.R. 3097: Green Transportation Act

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H.R. 3097: Green Transportation Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-05-11 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-05-11 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35] · 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 Highways and Transit. 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

Green Transportation Act

Plain summary

Green Transportation Act This bill incorporates greenhouse gas emission reduction in various transportation-related planning activities and programs. Specifically, states and metropolitan planning organizations must address greenhouse gas emission reductions and certain other issues (e.g., public health and climate change) in long-range and other planning related to highways and public transportation. The bill also makes reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation system a national goal of the Federal-aid Highway Program. The Department of Transportation (DOT) must establish applicable performance measures and standards related to that goal. Additionally, states and metropolitan planning organizations may use certain funding available through the National Highway Trust Fund to develop standardized models and methodologies to measure and monitor transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. DOT must collect and organize such models and methodologies in a publicly available clearinghouse and report about them to Congress. Further, DOT must establish a program to fund projects that support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the surface transportation system. As part of this program, DOT must annually evaluate carbon dioxide emissions on public roads and evaluate states' progress in reducing emissions.

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Official text

Green Transportation Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35] · 22 cosponsors

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Judy Chu (D-CA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35] reported raising $471,289 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr3097 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117