[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5976 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5976

 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for the TIGER 
          Discretionary Grant program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2012

 Ms. Waters (for herself, Ms. Richardson, Ms. Bass of California, Ms. 
   Hahn, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. 
 Filner, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Clarke of Michigan, 
Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Rush, Mr. Clay, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. 
 Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, 
   Ms. Pingree of Maine, Mr. Rangel, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Ellison, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. Towns, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. 
Sewell, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Doyle, 
  Mr. Baca, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. 
Michaud, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, and Ms. Matsui) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for the TIGER 
          Discretionary Grant program, 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 ``TIGER Grants for Job Creation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The economy is struggling to recover from the 
        recession. The unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent 
        nationally for 40 straight months and is even higher in 
        minority communities and in many areas of the country.
            (2) The American Society of Civil Engineers' 2009 Report 
        Card for America's Infrastructure estimated that there is a 
        $549,500,000,000 shortfall in investments in roads and bridges 
        and an additional $190,100,000,000 shortfall in investments in 
        transit.
            (3) TIGER, formally known as the Transportation Investment 
        Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program, is a 
        nationwide competitive grant program that creates jobs by 
        funding investments in transportation infrastructure by States, 
        local governments, and transit agencies.
            (4) TIGER funds projects that will have a significant 
        impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region.
            (5) In distributing grants under TIGER, the Secretary of 
        Transportation is required to ensure an equitable geographic 
        distribution of funds, a balance in addressing the needs of 
        urban and rural areas, and investments in a variety of modes of 
        transportation.
            (6) TIGER received an appropriation of $500,000,000 in 
        fiscal year 2012.
            (7) Current appropriations for TIGER are not sufficient to 
        address the need for investments in transportation 
        infrastructure in communities throughout the United States as 
        the amounts only fund a small fraction of the transportation 
        infrastructure projects for which TIGER grant applications have 
        been received.
            (8) The President requested an appropriation of 
        $500,000,000 for TIGER in fiscal year 2013.
            (9) An appropriation of $500,000,000 for TIGER to be made 
        available in fiscal year 2013 and an additional appropriation 
        of $500,000,000 to be made available in fiscal year 2014 will 
        allow States, local governments, and transit agencies 
        throughout the United States to improve transportation 
        infrastructure while creating jobs.
            (10) Emergency supplemental appropriations for TIGER 
        totaling $1,000,000,000 to be made available in fiscal years 
        2013 and 2014 will allow the Secretary of Transportation 
        immediately to begin to organize new competitions for TIGER 
        grants and allow States, local governments, and transit 
        agencies to prepare grant applications, thus ensuring an 
        efficient use of funds and timely job creation.

SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR TIGER DISCRETIONARY GRANT 
              PROGRAM.

    The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fiscal year 2012:

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                  national infrastructure investments

    For an additional amount for ``National Infrastructure 
Investments'' in accordance with the provisions under this heading in 
title I of division C of Public Law 112-55, $1,000,000,000, of which 
$500,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2012, and 
$500,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2013: Provided, That 
the amount under this heading shall remain available until September 
30, 2014: Provided further, That the amount under this heading is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, except that such amount shall be available only if 
the President subsequently so designates such amount and transmits such 
designation to the Congress.
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