[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2299 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2299
To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize state of good
repair grants to be used for public transportation resilience
improvement, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 16, 2025
Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself, Mr. Welch, Mr. Booker, and Mr.
Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize state of good
repair grants to be used for public transportation resilience
improvement, 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 ``Resilient Transit Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
Section 5302 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (17) through (25) as
paragraphs (18) through (26), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (16) the following:
``(17) Resilience improvement.--The term `resilience
improvement' has the meaning given the term in section 176(a)
of title 23.''.
SEC. 3. STATE OF GOOD REPAIR GRANTS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
RESILIENCE IMPROVEMENT.
(a) In General.--Section 5337 of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(g) Public Transportation Resilience Improvement Grants.--
``(1) Definitions.--In this section:
``(A) Environmental justice community.--The term
`environmental justice community' means a community
with significant representation of communities of
color, low-income communities, or Tribal and indigenous
communities, that experiences or is at risk of
experiencing higher or more adverse human health or
environmental effects.
``(B) EJSCREEN.--The term `EJSCREEN' means the
environmental justice mapping and screening tool
created by the Environmental Protection Agency.
``(C) EJ index.--The term `EJ Index' means the
Environmental Justice Indexes in EJSCREEN.
``(D) Medically underserved community.--The term
`medically underserved community' has the meaning given
the term in section 799B of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 295p).
``(E) Underserved community.--The term `underserved
community' means--
``(i) a community located within a ZIP Code
or census tract that is identified by the
Secretary as--
``(I) a low-income community;
``(II) a community of color; or
``(III) a Tribal community; or
``(ii) any other community that the
Secretary determines is disproportionately
vulnerable to, or bares a disproportionate
burden of, any combination of economic, social,
environmental, or climate stressors.
``(2) Grants.--The Secretary may make grants under this
subsection to assist State and local government authorities in
financing 1 or more eligible activities described in paragraph
(3).
``(3) Eligible activities.--
``(A) In general.--A recipient of a grant under
this subsection may use grant amounts for public
transportation resilience improvements that increase
the resilience of public transportation systems from
the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise,
flooding, wildfires, extreme weather events, and other
natural disasters.
``(B) Inclusions.--Activities eligible to be
carried out using grant amounts under this subsection
include--
``(i) the installation of mitigation
measures that prevent the intrusion of
floodwaters;
``(ii) the installation of equipment to
detect the occurrence of a flood event;
``(iii) the replacement of equipment or
facilities that are currently prone to flood
events or will be in the future;
``(iv) the purchase of new equipment to
support regular maintenance of drainage and
pumping infrastructure;
``(v) the replacement of equipment stressed
during extreme temperature events;
``(vi) the installation of equipment to
regulate temperatures and sensors to monitor
extreme temperatures;
``(vii) the development of backup systems
to provide redundancy during the outage of a
primary power source;
``(viii) the assessment of system
vulnerabilities to current and future weather
events, natural disasters, and climate change,
including sea level rise;
``(ix) the planning of system improvements
and emergency response strategies to address
identified vulnerabilities; and
``(x) any other activity for resilience
improvement, as determined by the Secretary.
``(4) Types of projects.--Grants under this subsection may
be used to finance--
``(A) standalone projects; and
``(B) components of projects carried out under
subsection (b)(1).
``(5) Public transportation resilience improvement
formula.--Of the amounts made available under section
5338(a)(2)(L) to carry out this subsection--
``(A) 97.15 percent shall be apportioned to
recipients in accordance with subsection (c); and
``(B) 2.85 percent shall be apportioned to
recipients in accordance with subsection (d).
``(6) Annual reports to congress.--Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of this subsection, and annually
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives, and publish on the website of the
Department of Transportation, a report that describes the
implementation of this subsection during the preceding calendar
year, including--
``(A) a detailed description of the activities
carried out under the grants provided under this
subsection;
``(B) a summary of each project financed in whole
or in part by a grant provided under this subsection
that benefits or is located in--
``(i) a neighborhood with poverty and
unemployment rates that exceed the average in
the United States;
``(ii) a neighborhood where 30 percent or
more of households receive benefits under--
``(I) the supplemental nutrition
assistance program under the Food and
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 7011 et
seq.); or
``(II) a mandatory spending program
of the Federal Government for which, as
determined by the Secretary,
eligibility for the program's benefits,
or the amount of such benefits, is
determined on the basis of income or
resources of the individual or family
seeking the benefit;
``(iii) an underserved community or a
medically underserved community;
``(iv) an EPA region where the EJ Index is
above the national average, as determined by
EJSCREEN; or
``(v) an environmental justice community,
as documented by Federally recognized
environmental justice mapping and equity
screening tools; and
``(C) recommendations to improve the administration
of this subsection.''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 5337 of title 49, United States
Code, is amended by striking ``section 5338(a)(2)(K)'' each place it
appears and inserting ``section 5338(a)(2)(L)''.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATIONS.
Section 5338(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)(E), by striking ``$14,642,000,000''
and inserting ``$14,942,000,000''; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(L)--
(A) by striking ``$3,850,496,668'' and inserting
``$4,150,496,668''; and
(B) by inserting ``and $300,000,000 for fiscal year
2026 shall be available to carry out section 5337(g)''
after ``section 5337(f)''.
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