File #: 2024-0137   
Type: Informational Report Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 2/20/2024 In control: Executive Management Committee
On agenda: 3/21/2024 Final action:
Title: RECEIVE AND FILE March 2024 State and Federal Legislative Report.
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: Budget, Budgeting, Capital Project, Community Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Grant Aid, Informational Report, Metro Rail D Line, Olympic games, Partnerships, Safety, Transit operators, Transit safety, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2
Related files: 2024-0206
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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MARCH 21, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE March 2024 State and Federal Legislative Report.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations, Deputy Executive Officer

Chair Bass and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on several key federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on February 23, 2024, and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on March 21, 2024. The status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, updated monthly.

Federal Government - Funding Bill Status
Metro continues to closely track the status of federal spending bills - because any shutdown of the Federal Government would have an adverse impact on the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and especially the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), which is in part dependent on Congressional passage of annual appropriations bills. This, in turn would have a negative impact on the free flow of federal transportation dollars to our agency.
At present, the funding extension provided by Congress late last year for the federal transportation spending bill is slated to expire on March 1, 2024. Should Congress and the President be unable to reach an accord on this spending bill, the USDOT will have to enact steps that will reduce the flow of federal dollars to our agency. As of the writing of this federal update language on the final transportation spending measure was being finalized by House appropriators.

Should Congress be able to agree on a funding bill for transportation projects and programs that honors the spending levels agreed to in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law ,Metro can expect to receive the fo...

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