Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill funds fiscal year 2026 transportation, housing, urban-development, and related-agency accounts and attaches detailed operating limits. For the Department of Transportation, it restricts Office of the Secretary assessments against operating-administration funds unless reprogramming notice is completed, requires the Council on Credit and Finance to post meeting schedules, agendas, decisions, and actions, and requires at least three days' written notice before DOT provides TIFIA credit assistance. It authorizes working-capital-fund mechanics for federal transit benefits, lets tribes move DOT funding agreement amounts through the Office of Tribal Government Affairs, rescinds $10 million from prior ARPA-I balances, restricts FAA compensation for the MITRE aviation FFRDC, protects private-aircraft flight-tracking blocking, and caps Amtrak overtime above $35,000 unless waived for safety or operational efficiency with reporting.
For HUD, the bill controls multifamily property disposition, Section 8 and other rental-assistance protections, public housing asset-management exemptions, capital-fund use, HAP contract-support solicitations, employee awards, grant competition, GNMA audit treatment, Native Alaskan housing allocations, and small or nontroubled public housing agency treatment. Government-wide riders restrict lobbying with appropriated funds, Buy American Act violators, international conferences, flags flown at funded facilities, eminent-domain uses, employee attendance at international conferences, and funding actions contrary to specified executive orders and memoranda.
Who Benefits and How
DOT operating administrations benefit from controls that prevent Office of the Secretary assessments unless reprogramming rules are followed. Transportation infrastructure project sponsors benefit from notice requirements that make TIFIA credit-assistance approvals more transparent. Private aircraft owners benefit from the bar on using funds to limit flight-tracking blocking requests. FAA contract tower applicants, rural Essential Air Service communities, tribal DOT funding recipients, and transit-benefit administrators benefit from account authorities or program protections. HUD-assisted tenants benefit because multifamily properties with Section 8 or other rental-assistance contracts must maintain project-based rental assistance and avoid involuntary displacement where feasible. Small public housing agencies and nontroubled public housing agencies benefit from exemptions or set-asides in asset-management and public-housing funding provisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DOT budget staff, the Secretary of Transportation, FAA administrators, FTA grant staff, Amtrak management, and Maritime Administration officials must comply with notification, transfer, rescission, overtime, and account-use conditions. HUD program offices, GNMA staff, public-housing administrators, and multifamily property managers must follow restrictions on grants, asset management, rental assistance, funds control, solicitations, and awards. Transportation construction contractors and transit infrastructure grant recipients face rescissions or limits on hiring-preference and grant spending provisions. Amtrak grant recipients and other grant or contract recipients bear lobbying restrictions tied to appropriated funds. Agencies funded by the bill must also comply with conference, flag, Buy American, eminent-domain, and executive-order riders.
Key Provisions
- Requires DOT Council on Credit and Finance meeting schedules, agendas, decisions, and actions to be posted online.
- Requires three days' written congressional notice before DOT approves TIFIA credit assistance.
- Rescinds $10 million from prior Advanced Research Projects Agency-Infrastructure balances.
- Bars limits on private-aircraft flight-tracking blocking requests except for government-agency data.
- Caps Amtrak overtime above $35,000 unless the Amtrak president grants a safety or operational-efficiency waiver and reports it.
- Rescinds $40 million from prior transit infrastructure grant balances.
- Protects Section 8 multifamily tenants during HUD-owned or HUD-held property disposition.
- Allows small public housing agencies to elect exemption from specified asset-management requirements.
- Restricts lobbying, Buy American violators, international conferences, flags, eminent-domain uses, and contrary executive-order spending.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Provides fiscal year 2026 appropriations and policy riders for the Department of Transportation, HUD, FAA, FTA, FHWA, FRA, Amtrak, MARAD, GNMA, public housing, Section 8 and multifamily housing, Community Development Block Grants, Native housing, and cross-government restrictions on grants, lobbying, conferences, flags, Buy American violators, and executive-order compliance.
Key Policy Areas
Appropriations, Transportation, Housing, Public Transit, Aviation, Federal Oversight
Primary Purpose
Provides fiscal year 2026 appropriations and policy riders for the Department of Transportation, HUD, FAA, FTA, FHWA, FRA, Amtrak, MARAD, GNMA, public housing, Section 8 and multifamily housing, Community Development Block Grants, Native housing, and cross-government restrictions on grants, lobbying, conferences, flags, Buy American violators, and executive-order compliance.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- DOT operating administrations
- Transportation infrastructure project sponsors
- Private aircraft owners
- FAA contract tower applicants
- Rural Essential Air Service communities
- Tribal DOT funding recipients
- Transit-benefit administrators
- HUD-assisted tenants
- Small public housing agencies
- Nontroubled public housing agencies
Identified Costs
- DOT budget staff
- Secretary of Transportation staff
- FAA administrators
- FTA grant staff
- Amtrak management
- Maritime Administration officials
- HUD program offices
- GNMA staff
- Public-housing administrators
- Multifamily property managers
- Transportation construction contractors
- Transit infrastructure grant recipients
- Amtrak grant recipients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedMr. Womack, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 172.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Infrastructure (ARPA-I), Agencies and entities funded by the Act, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Aviation Administration, Government agencies and departments face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Department of Transportation, Department of Transportation IT operations, Department of Transportation contractors, Departments and agencies with information technology needs, FAA regional office employees, Federal agencies and departments, Federal agencies and employees, Federal agencies receiving appropriations, Federal agencies with fiscal year 2026 appropriations, Federal employees receiving transit benefits, Government agencies responsible for tax apportionments, Inspectors General, Office of Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Operating Administrations within Federal Departments, Regulatory agencies (e.g., DOT)
Negative-direction: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Infrastructure (ARPA-I), Agencies and entities funded by the Act, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Programs, Department of Transportation - Build America Bureau, Department of Transportation - Council on Credit and Finance, Department of Transportation and its operating administrations, Department of Transportation senior executives, Department of the relevant program and activity, Departments and agencies with Inspectors General, Federal Aviation Administration employees, Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Officials of countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Surface Transportation Board, The Secretary and relevant departments/agencies
Airport sponsors and providers of general aviation ground support services at airports closed due to TFRs for presidential security, Airports, airlines operating in New Jersey, Amtrak and its employees
Positive-direction: Airport sponsors and providers of general aviation ground support services at airports closed due to TFRs for presidential security, Amtrak and its employees, Essential Air Service program airlines, Federal Railroad Administration, Heavy truck manufacturers and operators, Maritime Administration, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Motor carriers participating in the safe driver apprenticeship pilot program, Private aircraft owners and operators, Public transit operators, State or territory Departments of Transportation, States receiving federal transportation funding, Transit infrastructure grant recipients, Transportation infrastructure project applicants, Union Station Redevelopment Corporation
Negative-direction: Airports, airlines operating in New Jersey, California High-Speed Rail Authority, Entities applying for transportation grants under section 117 of title 23, US Code, FMCSA, petitioners for preemption waivers, Flight tracking service providers, Foreign air carriers from E.U., Iceland, and Norway, Maritime Administration - Title XI Program, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), Recipients of federal grants related to motor vehicle data, State of Minnesota, Department of Transportation, State of Texas, High-Speed Rail Corridor Developers, Transportation agencies implementing Priced Zones or NYC CBD Tolling Program, Transportation infrastructure project sponsors seeking TIFIA loans, U.S. airlines and related industries
Entities receiving housing assistance payments, Entities seeking to use eminent domain for private economic development, Federal Housing Administration, Government National Mortgage Association, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Positive-direction: Grantees with under-allocations due to prior errors, Multifamily Housing Project Owners and Tenants, Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients from fiscal year 2005, Nontroubled public housing agencies, Project owners with approved projects post-January 1, 1992, Public Housing Agencies, Public Housing Agencies designated as Moving to Work agencies, Public Housing Agencies under Federal oversight, Public housing agencies providing low-income family assistance, Section 8 multifamily tenants, Small public housing agencies, State housing finance agencies, local governments, local housing agencies
Negative-direction: Entities receiving housing assistance payments, Entities seeking to use eminent domain for private economic development, Federal Housing Administration, Government National Mortgage Association, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government National Mortgage Association, Grantees with prior over-allocations in housing grants, HUD Employees Subject to Disciplinary Action, Official or employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public Housing Agency Executives
Government agencies responsible for public health enforcement, States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, private sources, and State rail safety inspectors, Taxpayers
Contractors with unsatisfactory performance, Entities receiving federal assistance
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, Other congressional committees
Positive-direction: House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
Negative-direction: Other congressional committees
Local jurisdictions refusing to comply with DHS requests, Units of general local government designated as metropolitan cities
Positive-direction: Units of general local government designated as metropolitan cities
Negative-direction: Local jurisdictions refusing to comply with DHS requests
MITRE Corporation - Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development, Transportation infrastructure research and development
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "dot"
- → Department of Transportation
- "faa"
- → Federal Aviation Administration
- "fta"
- → Federal Transit Administration
- "hud"
- → Department of Housing and Urban Development
- "gnma"
- → Government National Mortgage Association
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