Moving Transit Forward Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a new urbanized area formula grant program for transit service improvement and safety and security enhancement.
Who Benefits and How
Transit agencies in urbanized areas could receive new grant support for service quality, frequency, geographic availability, safety, and security improvements.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Transportation Department would need to administer the new grant program and participating agencies would need to plan and use the funds within the new framework.
Key Provisions
- Creates a new formula grant program for transit service improvement and safety and security enhancement in urbanized areas.
- Allows funding for operating costs, service adjustments, security, and related transit improvements.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a new urbanized area formula grant program for transit service improvement and safety and security enhancement.
Key Policy Areas
Transportation
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a new urbanized area formula grant program for transit service improvement and safety and security enhancement.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Transit agencies and riders in urbanized areas
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Transportation officials administering the new urbanized area grant program
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Fetterman, Ms. Blunt Rochester, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Transit agencies in urbanized areas receiving service improvement and safety grants
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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