Medium Transit Intensive Cities Authorization Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8785 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8785

 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.

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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

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                                 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.''.
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