This week, the House and Senate both made progress in moving their respective transportation funding bill for fiscal year 2017. Both bills include a key, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-backed provision that sets restrictions on the use of a that enables state or local grant recipients to utilize local or geographical, economic-based, and veterans hiring preferences on federal-aid highway and federal transit projects.
On the funding side, both bills provide FAST Act investment levels for federal-aid highways ($43.266 billion) and transit ($9.734 billion). A key difference between the House and Senate bills is that the House does not rescind $2.2 billion in unobligated highway funding in fiscal year 2017 as the Senate bill does.
As the appropriations process moves forward ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ will work to ensure that the provision restricting local hiring preferences remain and that FAST Act funding levels are provided without the $2.2 billion cut provided in the Senate bill.
For more information, please contact Sean O’Neill at oneills@agc.org or (202) 547-8892.