Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act

This bill changes federal highway and transit planning laws for metropolitan areas and states. It would require projects in long-range transportation plans to be chosen through a public process that uses criteria tied to federal planning factors, national transportation goals, and state goals. These criteria would be used to publicly sort projects into categories, including a highest performing category. Projects placed on shorter-term priority lists would have to come from that highest performing category. If a lower-ranked project is placed ahead of a higher-ranked one, planners would have to publish an explanation, which may include reasons such as geographic balance or serving economically distressed areas.

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Sponsors

• Mark DeSaulnier Democrat sponsor
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