Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act

Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act - Revises urbanized area formula grant eligibility requirements to allow a recipient (person, entity, or state or regional authority) to receive such a grant only if it certifies that it has not raised the maximum tolls for any bridge or tunnel by more than 10% during the previous 5 fiscal years.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6515 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6515

  To stop excessive toll hikes which harm our local economies, small 
                 businesses, and hard working families.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2012

  Mr. Grimm introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To stop excessive toll hikes which harm our local economies, small 
                 businesses, and hard working families.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Excessive Toll Hikes Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EXCESSIVE TOLLS.

    Section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended in 
subsection (c)(1), after subparagraph (L), by inserting the following:
                    ``(M) Has not raised the maximum tolls for any 
                bridge or tunnel by more than ten percent during the 
                previous five fiscal years.''.
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