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LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY NEWS RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
Welcome to CTAA’s one-stop federal transit legislation page. Mousing over the boxes below will take you to CTAA legislative analyses, bill language, official letters, resources and more. The CTAA legislative team of Chris Zeilinger and Scott Bogren are responsible for this site, please contact them if you have any questions.
Our Legislative Priorities
Each year, the CTAA Board Legislative Committee works with the Association's legislative staff to develop a set of annual legislative priorities. These priorities are then shared in draft with CTAA's State and Tribal Delegates for additional input before they are published and disseminated.
Letters and Press Releases
Periodically, CTAA issues letters and press releases expressing our positions on key legislative, regulatory and other public transportation issues.
- CTAA/APTA Letter Requesting Time-Based Waiver on New CDL Entry Level Driver Training
- Comment – FTA Request for Information (RFI) on Transit Bus Automation Research and Demonstrations
- Comment on Federal Transit Administration Notice of Proposed Buy America Waiver for Vans and Minivans
- CTAA Statement of Support for President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
- Sign-On Letter on Additional COVID-19 Stimulus Funds
- Letter on Using Existing Formulas for COVID Stimulus Funds
- Letter of Support for House INVEST Act
- CTAA Welcomes Secretary Buttigieg
Testimony
Every so often, CTAA is asked by either House or Senate Committee staff to participate in hearings, typically through providing written and oral testimony. Sometimes we select a CTAA member to represent the Association during a hearing. Other times, the testimony is handled by staff.
- Testimony of Todd Morrow, Executive Director of Island Transit, Coupeville, Wash., before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (March 21, 2024)
- Testimony of Executive Director Scott Bogren before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (April 6, 2022)
- Kendra McGeady, Senate Banking Committee (June 8, 2021)
- Barb Cline, Senate Banking Committee (June 8, 2021)
Notices
In this section of our Fed Central site, we'll post official federal notices of funding opportunities, regulatory comment periods, funding awards notices and more.
- FTA Notice on Emergency Relief Docket for 2021
- 2021 Low or No Emission Bus Program Notice of Funding (Deadline April 12, 2021)
Resources
CTAA regularly produces reports, surveys and analyses that we want to be sure are made available to members for easy download. These resources will be stored here.
- Rural Transit Safety Data
- FY 23 No/Low and Bus Funding Analysis
- Looking Beyond FTA: Some Transportation Programs of Note Under the New Infrastructure Law
- Public Transportation's response to the covid-19 pandemic and how it shapes the future
- Analysis: Seven State DOTs Surveyed on Transit COVID Stimulus Funds
- Census Proposes Updated Urban Area Criteria
- Public Transit Gets Record-Setting COVID Relief
- Survey of Rural and Small City Transit CTAA Members
- Section 5339 Bus and Bus Facilities Report
- CTAA VMT-Gas Tax Analysis
Regulations
Issues surrounding the regulatory environment for agencies operating transportation services are always of keen interest to CTAA members. In this section of Fed Central you'll find collected Association regulatory resources, recommendations and analyses organized by regulatory category.
- Asset Management
- Buy America
- Change In the Air for New-Hire CDL Training
- Charter Bus
- Civil Rights/DBE/Title VI
- Drug and Alcohol Testing
- NTD
- Oversight/Audits
- Procurement
- Safety
Appropriations and Apportionments
Annually, Congress engages in a federal transit appropriations process, both House and Senate, that results in FTA issuing annual apportionment notices that establish investment levels for federal transit funding. We'll collect key appropriations and apportionments documents here.
- FTA Announces American Rescue Plan Apportionments
- Public Transit Gets Record-Setting COVID Relief
- FTA Announces CRRSAA Apportionments
- CTAA Analysis of Final FY21 Transit Appropriations and CRRSAA
- CTAA's Analysis of HEROES Act
- FTA's FY 2021 Apportionment Tables
- CTAA on CARES Act and State-Managed Programs
- CTAA's CARES Act Analysis
Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Every five-to-six years, Congress reauthorizes the nation's surface transportation law, a process commonly called reauthorization. This process typically involves numerous hearings and establishes baseline funding levels, regulations, new programs and more. We'll post here current authorizing language and CTAA analyses and concepts for reauthorization.
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT)
Whether through Medicaid, Medicare, managed care or in direct contracts with hospitals, clinics and other health care providers, many CTAA members are directly engaged in providing NEMT services in their communities. We'll collect the most important NEMT guidance, notices of funding, legislative action and regulatory updates here.
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