STOP NJ CONGESTION Act

Stop Taxation of Overburdened People from New Jersey by Correcting Obnoxious New Gimmick and Ensuring the Stability of Transportation Infrastructure from Obstinate Neighbors Act or the STOP NJ CONGESTION Act
 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to withhold 50% of National Highway Performance Program funds and Surface Transportation Block Grant program funds from each state that implements a congestion pricing system similar to that described in the environmental assessment titled Final Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Program, Manhattan, New York.
 
The bill also prohibits the implementation of projects under a DOT value pricing pilot program unless the project sponsor receives the consent of each affected state. Value pricing (also called congestion pricing) involves charging drivers on congested roadways during peak periods.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3531 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3531

To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide sanctions for States 
   using certain congestion pricing systems, to amend the Intermodal 
  Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to require consent of 
 affected States in carrying out value pricing pilot projects, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2023

  Mr. Pascrell (for himself, Mr. Gottheimer, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. 
Kean of New Jersey, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Norcross) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide sanctions for States 
   using certain congestion pricing systems, to amend the Intermodal 
  Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to require consent of 
 affected States in carrying out value pricing pilot projects, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 Taxation of Overburdened People 
from New Jersey by Correcting Obnoxious New Gimmick and Ensuring the 
Stability of Transportation Infrastructure from Obstinate Neighbors 
Act'' or the ``STOP NJ CONGESTION Act''.

SEC. 2. SANCTIONS FOR STATES USING CERTAIN CONGESTION PRICING SYSTEMS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 159 the following:
``Sec. 160. Sanctions for States using certain congestion pricing 
              systems
    ``(a) In General.--On October 1, 2023, and each October 1 
thereafter, the Secretary shall withhold the amounts described in 
subsection (b) from the amount required to be apportioned to the State 
under section 104(b) for that fiscal year from each State that 
implements a congestion pricing system described in, or similar to, the 
program described in the environmental assessment titled `Final 
Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact 
(FONSI) for Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Program, Manhattan, 
New York', dated April 2023.
    ``(b) Amounts Described.--The amounts referred to in subsection (a) 
are--
            ``(1) for amounts required to be apportioned to the State 
        under section 104(b)(1), 50 percent; and
            ``(2) for amounts required to be apportioned to the State 
        under section 104(b)(2), 50 percent.
    ``(c) Effect of Withholding.--No funds withheld under this section 
from apportionment to a State shall be available to that State.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 1 of title 23, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 159 the following:

``160. Sanction for States using certain congestion pricing systems.''.

SEC. 3. VALUE PRICING PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 1012(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency 
Act of 1991 (23 U.S.C. 149 note; Public Law 102-240) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) Consent of affected states.--Before implementing a 
        value pricing pilot program under this subsection, the project 
        sponsor shall meaningfully engage with, and receive consent 
        from, each State reasonably affected by the value pricing pilot 
        program, including any State with a geographic area included in 
        a regional or local study area included in an environmental 
        review prepared in accordance with the National Environmental 
        Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).''.
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