# 119-hr-10019: Incentivizing Value Capture for Greener Transportation Act

119-hr-10019, Incentivizing Value Capture for Greener Transportation Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-13).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-10019
- Congress: 119
- Title: Incentivizing Value Capture for Greener Transportation Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-08-03
- Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-13

## Summary

**Creates a federal value capture program** to help states and cities turn the increase in land and development value around transit into funding for public transportation and affordable transit-oriented development. The program pairs grants with technical help and performance rules to boost transit capacity, ridership, and lower emissions and congestion. - Families and small businesses: Encourages more affordable housing near transit defined as housing that costs no more than 30% of a family’s income, and affordable commercial space for small or disadvantaged businesses at below-market rent. - State and local governments and planners: Offers technical assistance grants to design value capture tools and requires applicants to show how grants will increase transit capacity, ridership, and reduce CO2 emissions, vehicle miles traveled, and congestion. Grants carry maintenance-of-effort conditions and a statutory waiver for hardship or disaster. - Workers and contractors: Construction paid by grants must follow Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rules and the Secretary can revoke funds for noncompliance.

## Provisions PRIA read

- New federal grants for transit and housing: mixed, medium. If enacted, the Department of Transportation would create a new grant and technical‑assistance program to help States and local governments develop value‑capture funding for public transit and transit‑oriented development. Applicants would have to explain how funds would increase transit capacity a…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7481: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-10019 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10019)

## Related
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7481: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7481)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5658)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10019 (as of 2026-08-13).