Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America’s 250th Act
A BILL
To authorize funding for Federal-aid highways, bridge construction and rehabilitation, highway safety programs, transit programs, and rail programs, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Definitions
In this Act:
Comptroller General— The term Comptroller General means the Comptroller General of the United States.
Department— Unless otherwise specified, the term Department means the Department of Transportation.
Secretary— Unless otherwise specified, the term Secretary means the Secretary of Transportation.
Sec. 3 Effective date
Except as otherwise provided, this Act, including the amendments made by this Act, shall take effect on October 1, 2026.
Sec. 4 Automatic execution of conforming changes
Covered highways laws— Section 101 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(f) Automatic execution of conforming changes
“(1) In general—When an amendment to a covered highways law adds a section or larger organizational unit to the covered highways law, repeals or transfers a section or larger organizational unit in the covered highways law, or amends the designation or heading of a section or larger organizational unit in the covered highways law, that amendment also shall have the effect of amending any analysis, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the covered highways law to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment.
“(2) Exceptions—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an amendment described in such paragraph when—
“(A) the amendment or a clerical amendment enacted at the same time expressly amends a table of sections, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the covered highways law to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment; or
“(B) the amendment otherwise expressly exempts itself from the operation of this subsection.
“(3) Covered highways law defined—In this subsection, the term covered highways law means—
“(A) this title;
“(B) any Act that authorizes amounts to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund; or
“(C) any other law designated in the text thereof as a covered highways law for purposes of application of this subsection.”
Purpose and automatic execution of conforming changes— Section 101 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
in the section heading by inserting “; automatic execution of conforming changes” after “Purpose”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(c) Automatic execution of conforming changes
“(1) In general—When an amendment to a covered transportation law adds a section or larger organizational unit to the covered transportation law, repeals or transfers a section or larger organizational unit in the covered transportation law, or amends the designation or heading of a section or larger organizational unit in the covered transportation law, that amendment also shall have the effect of amending any analysis, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the covered transportation law to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment.
“(2) Exceptions—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an amendment described in such paragraph when—
“(A) the amendment or a clerical amendment enacted at the same time expressly amends a table of sections, table of contents, or similar tabular entries in the covered transportation law to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment; or
“(B) the amendment otherwise expressly exempts itself from the operation of this subsection.
“(3) Covered transportation law—In this subsection, the term covered transportation law means—
“(A) this title;
“(B) any Act that authorizes amounts to be appropriated out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund; or
“(C) any other law designated in the text thereof as a covered transportation law for purposes of application of this subsection.”
Application of amendments— Section 101(f) of title 23, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), and section 101(c) of title 49, United States Code, as added by subsection (b), shall apply to the amendments made by this section and other amendments made by this Act.