title: Federal-Aid Highway Act
text: # Federal-Aid Highway Act
  
  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
  
  * Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: July 11, 1916, ch. 241, 39 Stat. 355 (first)
  * Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps Act): November 9, 1921, 42 Stat. 212
  * Amendment and Authorization of 1925: merely continued existing funding, February 12, 1925, 43 Stat. 889
  * Amendment and Authorization of 1926: June 22, 1926, 44 Stat. 760
  * Federal Aid for Toll Bridges: March 3, 1927, 44 Stat. 1398
  * Amendment of 1928: May 21, 1928, 45 Stat. 683
  * Authorization for Forest Roads and Amendment of 1930: May 5, 1930, 46 Stat. 261
  * Provision for National-Park Approaches: January 31, 1931, 46 Stat. 1053
  * Hayden-Cartwright Act of 1934: June 18, 1934, 48 Stat. 993
  * Authorization and Amendment of 1936: June 16, 1936, 49 Stat. 1519
  * Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938: June 8, 1938, ch. 328, 52 Stat. 633
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944: December 20, 1944, 58 Stat. 838
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948: June 29, 1948, 62 Stat. 1105
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950: September 7, 1950, 64 Stat. 785
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952: June 25, 1952, 66 Stat. 158
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954: May 6, 1954, 68 Stat. 70
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act): June 29, 1956, 70 Stat. 374
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958: August 7, 1958
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959: September 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 611
  * Federal Highway Act of 1960: July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 522
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1961: June 29, 1961, 75 Stat. 122
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962: Pub. L. 87–866, October 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1145
  * Federal-Aid Highway Amendments Act of 1963: October 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 276
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1964: Pub. L. 88–423, August 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 397
  * Joint Resolution of 1965: August 28, 1965, 79 Stat. 578
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966: Pub. L. 89–574, September 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 766
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968: Pub. L. 90–495, August 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 815
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970: Pub. L. 91–605, title I, December 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1713
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973: Pub. L. 93–87, title I, August 13, 1973, 87 Stat. 250
  * Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974: January 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2281
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976: Pub. L. 94–280, title I, May 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 425
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978: Pub. L. 95–599, title I, November 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2689
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981: December 29, 1981, Pub. L. 97–134, 95 Stat. 1699, 23 U.S.C. § 101
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982: Pub. L. 97–424, title I, January 6, 1983, 96 Stat. 1611
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1986: reached Senate, S.2405
  * Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987 (Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act): Pub. L. 100–17, title I, April 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 132
  