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Medium Transit Intensive Cities Authorization Act of 2026
To amend section 5336 of title 49, United States Code, to provide for certain apportionments to medium-sized transit intensive cities, and for other purposes.
Summary
- Allocates 1.5 percent of certain federal transit funding to urbanized areas with populations of 200,000 to 999,999 that meet transit performance standards
- Creates a funding formula that apportions money based on how many transit performance metrics each eligible city meets or exceeds compared to larger cities with populations of at least one million
- Defines performance metrics for transit funding eligibility including passenger miles per vehicle revenue mile and hour, vehicle revenue per capita, and passengers per capita
- Requires the Secretary of Transportation to use national transit database data to calculate annual apportionments and determine which cities qualify for funding
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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Salud O. Carbajal’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $39,900
- TIGER MOON GROUP $13,200
- JENNINGS AERONAUTICS INC. $9,900
- WINDOW WORLD $9,900
- CHUMASH $8,400
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Actions (2)
- May 13, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
- May 13, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 13, 2026
Mr. Carbajal (for himself and Mr. Moore of Utah) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend section 5336 of title 49, United States Code, to provide for certain apportionments to medium-sized transit intensive cities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Medium Transit Intensive Cities Authorization Act of 2026”.
SEC. 2. MEDIUM-SIZED TRANSIT-INTENSIVE CITIES FORMULA.
Section 5336 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking “subsection (h)(5)” and inserting “subsection (h)(6)”;
(2) in subsection (h)—
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively;
(B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
“(4) of amounts not apportioned under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), 1.5 percent shall be apportioned to urbanized areas with populations of at least 200,000 but not more than 999,999 in accordance with subsection (k);”; and
(C) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, by striking “and (4)” and inserting “(4), and (5)”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(k) Medium-Sized Transit-Intensive Cities Formula.—
“(1) Apportionment.—
“(A) Formula.—The amount to be apportioned under subsection (h)(4) shall be apportioned among eligible areas in the ratio that—
“(i) the number of performance categories for which each eligible area meets or exceeds the industry average in urbanized areas with a population of at least 1,000,000; bears to
“(ii) the aggregate number of performance categories for which all eligible areas meet or exceed the industry average in urbanized areas with a population of at least 1,000,000.
“(B) Industry average.—The average in urbanized areas with a population of at least 1,000,000 shall—
“(i) be calculated separately for each such urbanized area for each performance category; and
“(ii) for each performance category, be the average of each individual performance category calculated as described in clause (i).
“(C) Data used.—The Secretary shall calculate apportionments under this subsection for a fiscal year using data from the national transit database used to calculate apportionments for that fiscal year under this section.
“(2) Definitions.—In this subsection:
“(A) Eligible area.—The term “eligible area” means an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 but not more than 999,999 that meets or exceeds in 1 or more performance categories the industry average for all urbanized areas with a population of at least 1,000,000, as determined by the Secretary in accordance with subsection (c)(1).
“(B) Performance category.—The term “performance category” means each of the following:
“(i) Passenger miles traveled per vehicle revenue mile.
“(ii) Passenger miles traveled per vehicle revenue hour.
“(iii) Vehicle revenue miles per capita.
“(iv) Vehicle revenue hours per capita.
“(v) Passenger miles traveled per capita.
“(vi) Passengers per capita.”. <all>
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