The following bills in the United States have been known as the Federal-Aid Highway Act or similar names since their initial adoption in 1916. The initial adoption established Congress to authorize and provide federal funding for constructing roads. There have been various amendments to the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
Since 1978, Congress has passed highway authorization legislation as part of larger, more comprehensive, multi-year surface transportation acts, which include federal-aid transit funding and federal-aid highway programs.
List of Federal-Aid Highway Acts Name of act and/or amendment Dateadopted Statutes atLarge citation Public LawcitationFederal Aid Road Act of 1916July 11, 1916Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps Act)November 9, 1921Amendment and Authorization of 1925February 12, 1925Amendment and Authorization of 1926June 22, 1926Federal Aid for Toll BridgesMarch 3, 1927Amendment of 1928May 21, 1928Authorization for Forest Roads and Amendment of 1930May 5, 1930Provision for National-Park ApproachesJanuary 31, 1931Hayden-Cartwright Act of 1934June 18, 1934Authorization and Amendment of 1936June 16, 1936Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938June 16, 1936Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944December 20, 1944Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948June 29, 1948Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950September 7, 1950Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952June 25, 1952Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954May 6, 1954Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956(National Interstate and Defense Highways Act)June 29, 1956Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958August 7, 1958Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959September 21, 1959Federal Highway Act of 1960July 14, 1960Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1961June 29, 1961Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962October 23, 1962Federal-Aid Highway Amendments Act of 1963October 24, 1963Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1964August 13, 1964Joint Resolution of 1965August 28, 1965Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966September 13, 1966Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968August 23, 1968Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970December 31, 1970Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973August 13, 1973Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974January 4, 1975Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976May 5, 1976Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978(Title I of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978)November 6, 1978Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981December 29, 1981Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982January 6, 1983Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987(Title I of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act)April 2, 1987
See also Title 23 of the United States Code Transportation policy of the United States
References
Federal Highway Administration, America's Highways: 1776–1976, pp. 546–547
External links – "Federal Aid Highways"