More than 1,000 Indiana bridges and 5,500 miles of highway are in poor condition, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Here is generally what would be in store for Indiana in the Senate's version of the bill, which is what is potentially being voted on next week and may still change: Roads and bridges: $7 billion Major public works projects involve a lengthy process of getting federal money to localities and then to private builders, meaning new usable infrastructure may not surface for several years after the passage of the bill - if it gets passed. In addition, the bill includes some competitive pools of money that Indiana can fight for.īut what specific projects may come to fruition from these pots of money is nearly impossible to know yet. Agencies must first know what money is available before they can select project proposals. Essentially, it's extra money into the pipeline. Generally, the federal money would go to existing federal programs, which distribute those additional funds to state departments of transportation, regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and other recipients of federal dollars, which then distribute funds locally according to their existing framework.

The rest of the bill re-ups money that is normally appropriated on an annual basis.

So far, the $1.2 trillion bill includes $556 billion in new federal spending to be distributed over the next five years. The bill's final form may very well change these numbers.Ĭhild care, climate change and $1.2 trillion worth of other initiatives: Where the bill stands What the White House has spelled out at this stage is the amount of appropriations proposed for each type of infrastructure in the bill - roads, bridges, water supply, the electric grid and even broadband - divvied up among the states according to current federal funding formulas. The newest deadline for a vote on this and the larger, but pared down, reconciliation bill, is Halloween. The details of who gets how much money, when and for what are murky until the bill becomes finalized. The goalpost for President Joe Biden's long-awaited $1 trillion infrastructure plan keeps on moving, pushing off any sense of clarity on what it will mean for states like Indiana on the ground level.

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