Road Usage Charge Pilot Program Act of 2015
Latest action · Feb 6, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 3, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Road Usage Charge Pilot Program Act of 2015
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Road Usage Charge Pilot Program to make competitive grants to state or local governments, or metropolitan planning, regional transportation planning, or tribal organizations to conduct pilot studies on implementing mileage-based fee systems as a method for funding transportation highway projects.
Directs the Secretary to establish a working group to:
- develop national technology standards for a road usage charge, as well as national privacy standards for such a charge that balance the effectiveness of revenue systems with user privacy; and
- evaluate the potential of the methods studied in the program to manage demand and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
- Feb 4, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Feb 3, 2015Introduced in House
- Feb 3, 2015Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Feb 3, 2015Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E152-153)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Advisory bodies
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Government studies and investigations
- Motor vehicles
- Regional and metropolitan planning
- Right of privacy
- Roads and highways
- State and local finance
- Technology assessment
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation programs funding
- User charges and fees
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 3, 2015Introduced in House
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