On May 21, the House Appropriations Committee approved by a vote of 28 to 21 the FY 2015 Transportation-HUD (T-HUD) appropriations bill. The House bill has a funding level of $52.03 billion, $1.2 billion more than the FY 2014 enacted funding level and $7.8 billion less than the president’s FY 2015 budget request. However, given the reduction in offsets caused by a decline in Federal Housing Administration receipts, the program level within the bill is more accurately $1.8 billion below the current level.
The bill would provide the following FY 2015 funding levels:
During the markup process, the following amendments to the bill were adopted by the full committee:
The schedule for consideration of the bill by the House has not been announced.