Private activity bonds

Lifting the PABs cap is a priority for transportation advocates, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and the Trump administration.

Volume-cap allocations can reveal which projects will gain access to tax-exempt financing and which may be crowded out, making private-activity bond rules a practical signal for issuers, advisors and investors, according to Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton.

Congress should also eliminate the mass transit account from the Highway Trust Fund, and consolidate all federal fuel tax revenues into the HTF, the USDOT proposed.

With the future of U.S. public funding for infrastructure remains cloudy in terms of quantity and delivery methods, sentiment appears to be shifting towards allowing more private investment.

The groups are taking additional steps to try to stop or pause development of a major industrial park between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

The President is pumping the brakes on signing the first major housing bill in 30 years including a provision that lifts the public welfare cap, a move that could spur bond sales.

With nearly $4.5 billion of tax-exempt bonds, a restructuring or bankruptcy would be among the muni market's largest to date.

Reason's latest transportation finance report lays out barriers to U.S. pension funds investing in infrastructure and the P3 pipeline.

The Trump administration and several states are leaning into public private partnerships as the idea of inviting private investment into public infrastructure gains more acceptance.

The Maryland Economic Development Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service have reached a resolution in a tax squabble over a bond issuance where proceeds of the sale were not spent within a three-year time window.

A major multiple-amended housing bill that is expected to expand the use of private activity bonds passes the House and bounces back to the Senate, but obstacles remain over provisions regulating institutional investors.

While the surface transportation reauthorization remains a work in progress, advocates for high-speed rail travel are exploring the benefits of public private partnerships

The administration's effort to revitalize the maritime industry includes opportunities for public-private partnerships.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking for proposals that leverage public private partnerships to solve traffic bottlenecks through the use of tolled express lanes .

Space Florida would own the assets and lease them to Project Jaguar, Space Florida's Ron Lau said.

As Congress returns to Washington in the next few weeks thoughts will turn to a problematic reconciliation bill, a housing bill close to completion and a farm bill facing serious challenges.

The MINT Act, which would enable Federal Home Loan Bank members to issue tax exempt bonds is working its way through committees in both House and Senate.

Congressional leaders are plotting out plans to land the surface transportation reauthorization before a September deadline.

The Senate approved the ROAD to Housing Act which will raise the public welfare investment cap, a move that should increase bond issuance.

Allowing tax-exempt bonds to remain outstanding during a long-term concession would lower financing costs, advocates say.