Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael Callagy, County Manager
Connie Juarez-Diroll, Legislative Officer
Subject: 2021 State and Federal Legislative Update #8
RECOMMENDATION:
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Accept this informational report on Federal legislative activities.
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BACKGROUND:
At the federal level and in the month of November, the President and Congress took action on major pieces of legislation, specifically the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) and a federal budget stopgap funding bill to keep the government running through February 18, 2021.
DISCUSSION:
On November 15, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA, H.R. 3684). The historic legislation includes $550 billion in new investments for transportation, water, broadband and more. The President's actions followed the August 10th passage of the bill by the U.S. Senate, where the legislation was advanced in a bipartisan 69-30 vote and the November 5th passage of the bill by the U.S. House of Representatives in a bipartisan 228 to 206 vote.
The IIJA provides $973 billion over five years from FY 2022 through FY 2026, including $550 billion in new investments for all modes of transportation, water, power and energy, environmental remediation, public lands, broadband and resilience.
Above baseline investments for sectors addressed in IIJA include:
* Transportation: $284 billion
* Water: $55 billion
* Broadband: $65 billion
* Energy & Power: $73 billion
* Environmental remediation: $21 billion
* Western water infrastructure: $8.3 billion
* Resiliency: $46 billion
Investments include:
Transportation - $284 billion
IIJA directs $284 billion in above baseline spending toward all modes of transportation. IIJA directs most of its investments - nearly 52 percent - toward modernizing and making improvements to transportation infrastructure, with th...
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