Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act

Long title	An Act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes
Nicknames	MAP-21
Enacted by	the 112th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub.L. 112–141
Statutes at Large	126 Stat. 405
Codification
Titles amended	23
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 4348 by John Mica (R-FL) on April 16, 2012 Passed the House on April 18, 2012 (293–127) Passed the Senate on April 24, 2012 (unanimous consent, in lieu of S. 1813 passed March 14, 2012 74–22) Reported by the joint conference committee on June 28, 2012; agreed to by the House on June 29, 2012 (373–52) and by the Senate on June 29, 2012 (74–19) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 6, 2012

The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, MAP-21, is a funding and authorization bill to govern United States federal surface transportation spending. It was passed by Congress on June 29, 2012 and President Barack Obama signed it on July 6. The vote was 373–52 in the House of Representatives and 74–19 in the Senate.

The $105 billion two-year bill does not significantly alter total funding from the previous authorization, but does include many significant reforms. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that enacting MAP-21 will reduce the federal budget deficit over the 2012–22 period by $16.3 billion.

Several unrelated provisions were attached to the bill: a one-year extension of federal student loan rates through June 30, 2013; a five-year reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through 2017; and a one-year extension to the Secure Rural Schools Act, which compensates rural counties for loss of revenue caused by reduced timber harvest on federal lands. The bill also contains a provision allowing the State Department to revoke, deny or limit passports for anyone the Internal Revenue Service certifies as having "a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000."

MAP-21 is funded without increasing transportation user fees. (The federal gas tax was last raised in 1993.) Instead, funds were generated through the following measures:

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