Metro - File #: 2019-0046

• File #: 2019-0046
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 1/29/2019
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 6/20/2019
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: Budget, Budgeting, City of Los Angeles, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Grant Aid, Housing, Informational Report, Metro ExpressLanes, Metro Orange Line, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Metrolink, Partnerships, Program, Project, Protection, Rolling stock, Safety, Senate Bill 1, Tolls, Transit buses, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Willowbrook, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions
• Related files: 2019-0535

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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JUNE 20, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Senior Director, Federal Affairs

Chair Kuehl and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on June 4, 2019 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on June 20, 2019. Status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.

Reauthorization/Trump Infrastructure Plan
The prospect of reaching an agreement on an infrastructure plan between Congress and the White House has diminished greatly in the last month - especially after the President walked out of a meeting with Congressional leaders that was intended to focus on how to fund such a package. Since that meeting fell apart, Congressional Members and staff are now working on what direction to move to keep the discussion alive. Metro continues to work with coalition partners and associations to pressure Congress to take action on a surface transportation bill. The current bill expires at the end of September 2020.
Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2020
On the Congressional side, both House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees have held hearings on the Administration's budget request. The House Appropriations Committee has approved their FY2020 bill and it is now awaiting consideration by the full House of Representatives.
The measure passed by the House Committee on Appropriations provides $86.6 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation and its programs and projects - a slight increase over Fiscal Year 2019 spending levels...