# 119-s-2299: Resilient Transit Act of 2025

119-s-2299, Resilient Transit Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2299
- As of: 2025-12-21
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2299
- Congress: 119
- Title: Resilient Transit Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-07-16
- Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**A new federal grant program for public transportation resilience** would fund upgrades to protect buses, trains, stations, and equipment from sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, and other climate-driven disasters, with an equity focus on environmental justice and underserved communities. - State and local transit agencies would be able to apply for grants to pay for resilience work such as flood intrusion barriers, flood detection systems, backup power, drainage maintenance, and temperature‑resilient equipment; grants can fund entire projects or components. - Environmental justice and underserved communities would be prioritized in project work and reporting, using EPA EJSCREEN and other indexes to identify neighborhoods with high poverty, heavy SNAP use, medically underserved areas, or disproportionate climate risks. - The Department of Transportation would publish an annual report to Congress and online listing projects, equity outcomes, project details, and recommendations to improve program administration. *Would raise two transit authorization lines by about $300 million each (to $14.9 billion and $4.2 billion) and set aside $300 million for FY2026 to support the new resilience grants, increasing authorized federal transit spending.*

## Cosponsors (3)

- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] (D-NJ), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More federal money for transit resilience: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would increase federal transit funding and set aside money for resilience. It would raise an authorization line to $14.942 billion and another to $4.150 billion. It would make a $300 million set-aside for fiscal year 2026 to fund resilience grants. Of the money for resilience,…
- New transit resilience grants and rules: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would create a Public Transportation Resilience Improvement Grants program at the Department of Transportation. Grants would help state and local transit agencies pay for flood protection, backup power, temperature controls, drainage and pumps, vulnerability assessments, planni…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-2763: Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act

## Sources
- [119-s-2299 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2299)

## Related
- [119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5066)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1507)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-2763: Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2763)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2299 (as of 2025-12-21).