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This section offers news briefs related to legislation in the U.S. The transportation bill in Alabama removes the designated source of funding for Northern Beltline. The legislation for high-speed rail in California may result to toll hikes and new taxes in San Francisco. The U.S. Department of Transportation has given transit improvement grants to Colorado.

This article provides state legislative updates concerning the field of civil engineering in the U.S. as of June 2011. The California Assembly passed a bill that would allow the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District to sell its treated wastewater as a supply of drinking or irrigation water. State transportation officials in Georgia added a number of projects such as several interchanges. A county sales tax for capital improvements for public safety services and transportation infrastructure has been proposed in Nebraska.

This article presents the position of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on several state legislation in the U.S. as of January 2011. The ASCE is against an act that exempts vehicles fueled solely by electricity or compressed natural gas from registration fees and taxes in Alaska. The organization also opposes an act suspending the motor fuel tax in the state. In Arkansas, the legislature introduced an act to allocate budgets for personal services and operating expenses for the state highway and transportation department.

This article reports on the hearings held by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to discuss priority projects. The committee concentrated on how to keep transportation investment money amid declining gas tax revenues. Representative Earl Blumenauer recommended to include pilot programs in a surface transportation authorization bill to determine the viability of a mileage-based tax (VMT).