Bill Details
HR.171 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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This bill would require the Department of Transportation’s inspector general to review how certain major public transit agencies used federal money over the last five fiscal years. The goal is to check how much funding they received, how they spent it, and to give Congress a report within 180 days. In simple terms, it is an oversight bill meant to improve accountability and transparency in transit spending, especially money tied to COVID-era relief and other federal transit programs.
- The audit would focus on the five transit agencies with the most passenger trips in 2019 that also received federal funds under the listed laws.
- The review would cover money from regular federal transit funding and several COVID-related relief laws passed in 2020 and 2021.
- The inspector general would have to report back to Congress with the results within 180 days after the bill becomes law.
- The report would include both the amount of money each agency got and a description of how that money was spent.
Official Summaries
Make Transportation Authorities Accountable and Transparent Act
This bill directs the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Transportation to conduct an audit of public transportation spending under certain laws (including specified coronavirus relief laws) and report to Congress.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 171 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 171
To require the inspector general of the Department of Transportation to
conduct an audit on the use of Federal funds by certain entities
providing public transportation, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Ms. Malliotakis (for herself and Mr. Gottheimer) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure
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A BILL
To require the inspector general of the Department of Transportation to
conduct an audit on the use of Federal funds by certain entities
providing public transportation, 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 ``Make Transportation Authorities
Accountable and Transparent Act''.
SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CORONAVIRUS
RELIEF SPENDING.
(a) Inspector General Audit.--
(1) Audit required.--The inspector general of the
Department of Transportation shall conduct an audit of funds
provided to each specified transit agency under the applicable
laws during the 5 fiscal years ending before the date of
enactment of this Act.
(2) Contents of audit.--The audit conducted under paragraph
(1) shall include the amount of funds received under each of
the applicable laws and a description of how such funds were
spent.
(3) Report to congress.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the inspector general shall
submit to Congress a report containing the results of the
audit.
(b) Definitions.--In this Act:
(1) Applicable laws.--The term ``applicable laws'' means
the following:
(A) Chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code.
(B) The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020.
(C) The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
Security Act.
(D) The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
(E) The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
(2) Public transportation.--The term ``public
transportation'' has the meaning given the term in section 5302
of title 49, United States Code.
(3) Specified transit agency.--The term ``specified transit
agency'' means the 5 entities providing public transportation
with the most unlinked passenger trips for calendar year 2019,
as reported to the National Transit Database, that received
Federal funds under any of the applicable laws.
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