APTA: House conference report includes provision to prohibit Chinese rolling stock procurements

A provision that would prohibit federal transit funds from being used to buy buses or rail rolling stock from a company based in China has been included in the U.S. House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal-year 2020 conference report, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reported yesterday.

In a Legislative Update, APTA reported that the conference report includes the measure that would affect federal transit funding used to buy rolling stock from an entity that is incorporated in or has manufacturing facilities in the United States and "is owned or controlled by, is a subsidiary of, or is otherwise related legally or financially to a corporation based in" China.

The provision would take effect two years after the date of the enactment of the NDAA.

Earlier this year, House and Senate NDAA bills contained similar provisions that would prohibit certain Chinese rolling stock procurements. The House will likely vote on the conference report this week, with the Senate taking up the measure soon after, APTA officials said in the update.