H.R. 8870 · 119th Congress

BUILD America 250 Act

Introduced on May 19, 2026 by Sam Graves (R-MO-6). 5 cosponsors, 2 of them from another party. Latest action (May 22, 2026): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 62 - 2.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
May 19, 2026
Cosponsors
5
2 from the other party
Policy area
Transportation and Public Works
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To authorize funding for Federal-aid highways, bridge construction and rehabilitation, highway safety programs, transit programs, and rail programs, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Accidents
  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Advisory bodies
  • Aging
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Commuting
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Consumer affairs
  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Disability assistance
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Employment and training programs
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Government trust funds
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
  • Infrastructure development
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
  • Marine and inland water transportation
  • Motor carriers
  • Motor vehicles
  • National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
  • Natural disasters
  • Pedestrians and bicycling
  • Pipelines
  • Public transit
  • Railroads
  • Roads and highways
  • Rural conditions and development
  • State and local government operations
  • Transportation employees
  • Transportation programs funding
  • Transportation safety and security
  • Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, May 19, 2026). Public domain.

Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act or the BUILD America 250 Act

This bill authorizes federal surface transportation (highway, public transportation, and rail) programs and activities through FY2031. The bill also establishes or modifies Department of Transportation (DOT) programs and policies that are a part of the federal-aid highway, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, research, hazardous materials, and rail programs.

For example, the bill authorizes appropriations through FY2031 out of the Highway Trust Fund for the federal-aid highway program, the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program, highway safety programs, and bridge programs. The bill also authorizes funding through FY2031 for Amtrak. Current authorization for these programs expires on September 30, 2026.

Among other provisions, the bill

  • establishes a Surface Transportation Accelerator Grant (STAG) discretionary program to fund surface transportation projects in rural, urban, local, and regional communities;
  • requires the Federal Highway Administration to impose a new annual electric vehicle (EV) registration fee, starting at $130 for a covered EV and $35 for a covered plug-in hybrid vehicle;
  • exempts automated driving system technology and equipment from vehicle width requirements;
  • establishes a consolidated state block grant program that allows DOT to allocate a lump sum to participating states to fund public transportation services in rural and urbanized areas;
  • allows state rail safety inspectors to conduct railroad bridge inspections; and
  • establishes a system for state, local, and tribal governments to report safety concerns about the condition of railroad bridges.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Sam GravesR-MO-6Sponsor

Democrats · 2

Republicans · 3

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. May 19, 2026Introduced in House
  2. May 19, 2026Introduced in House
  3. May 19, 2026 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
  4. May 20, 2026 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
  5. May 20, 2026 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
  6. May 21, 2026 · HouseSubcommittee on Highways and Transit Discharged
  7. May 21, 2026 · HouseSubcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Discharged
  8. May 21, 2026 · HouseCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  9. May 22, 2026 · HouseOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 62 - 2.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. Uber Technologies, Inc.6 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$694.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC.4 reports
    $2.5M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC$130.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  3. NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION4 reports
  4. American Public Transportation Association3 reports
    $660K reported (all issues)
  5. FEDEX CORPORATION3 reports
    $2.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.$407.8M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. GATX CORPORATION3 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  7. HDR, INC.3 reports
    $330K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: HDR, INCAI match · 100%
  8. Washington State Department of Transportation3 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  9. AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL2 reports
    $2.6M reported (all issues)
  10. AMERICAN CONCRETE PIPE ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $30K reported (all issues)
  11. AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $2.1M reported (all issues)
  12. AUTODESK, INC2 reports
    $260K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AUTODESK, INC.AI match · 100%
  13. American Association for Justice2 reports
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  14. American Concrete Institute2 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)
  15. American Cultural Resources Assn2 reports
    $30K reported (all issues)
  16. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY2 reports
    $960K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY$439.8K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  17. CRH Americas Materials, Inc.2 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)
  18. CSX CORPORATION2 reports
    $310K reported (all issues)
  19. Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance2 reports
    $35K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SAFETY ALLIANCE$238.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  20. EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS INC.2 reports
    $510K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS CANADA INC$118.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  21. Foothill Transit2 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  22. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS2 reports
    $489.1K reported (all issues)
  23. LYFT, INC.2 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)
  24. NATIONAL STONE, SAND AND GRAVEL ASSOCIATION2 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)
  25. National Asphalt Pavement Association2 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  26. PPG INDUSTRIES INC.2 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.$8.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  27. QUALCOMM INCORPORATED2 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INC$93.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  28. The Sherwin-Williams Company2 reports
    $220K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY$4.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  29. Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership2 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  30. UNION PACIFIC CORP.2 reports
    $930K reported (all issues)
  31. Waymo LLC2 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  32. 3M COMPANY1 report
    $720K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: 3M COMPANY$28.7M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  33. AARP1 report
    $4.1M reported (all issues)
  34. ABB E-mobility, Inc.1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)
  35. AFL-CIO1 report
    $760K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AFL-CIO WORKING FOR AMERICA INSTITUTE, INC. (THE)AI match · 92%
  36. AIRPORT MINORITY ADVISORY COUNCIL1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)
  37. AIRPORTS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL-NORTH AMERICA1 report
    $775.2K reported (all issues)
  38. ALLIANCE FOR AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION1 report
  39. ALSTOM Transportation Inc.1 report
  40. AMERICAN BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION1 report
    $1.3M reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.