[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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