Eliminate the Federal Transit Administration spare bus ratio cap to help transit agencies keep buses running on time during extreme heat waves.

Dina Titus · Nevada · Democratic

policy impact 0.43 specificity 0.82 extraction confidence 86%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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H.R.5216 was sponsored by Rep. Dina Titus and introduced September 8, 2025. Congress.gov lists the latest action as referral to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on September 9, 2025, with status Introduced. The bill would require DOT/FTA to allow eligible regional transportation planning organizations to increase the spare bus ratio to 30 percent after enactment.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Titus introduced a targeted bill addressing the spare bus ratio, but Congress.gov shows it had not advanced beyond introduction/subcommittee referral, so the commitment was not delivered by enactment through this vehicle.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.5216 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): BUFFER Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%

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Rep. Titus’s office said the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed the Build America 250 Act and listed a Titus-championed provision: “BUFFER Act (H.R.5216): eliminates the Federal Transit Administration’s arbitrary spare bus ratio cap, helping buses run on time even during extreme heat waves.”

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The spare-ratio-cap policy was incorporated into a committee-passed surface transportation package, indicating meaningful partial progress, but the record cited is committee passage rather than final House/Senate passage, enactment, or FTA implementation.

partial same_term A for effort

Rep. Titus Champions Committee Passage of the Bipartisan Build America 250 Act | U.S. Congresswoman Dina Titus
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Titus sponsored H.R.5216 and materially advanced the BUFFER Act provision by getting it incorporated into H.R.8870, the BUILD America 250 Act, which the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved on May 22, 2026. But as of August 24, 2026, the cited vehicles had not passed both chambers, become law, or produced FTA implementation eliminating the spare bus ratio cap. This is meaningful same-term legislative progress, not full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%