[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2916 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2916

To remove the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation consider 
  the committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for long distance 
 intercity passenger rail routes under the Corridor Identification and 
                          Development Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 19 (legislative day, September 16), 2025

  Mr. Sheehy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To remove the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation consider 
  the committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for long distance 
 intercity passenger rail routes under the Corridor Identification and 
                          Development Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Long-Distance Corridor Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF CONSIDERATION REQUIREMENT OF NON-FEDERAL 
              FUNDING FOR CORRIDOR SELECTION.

    Section 25101(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (14) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (N), respectively, and indenting such 
        subparagraphs, as so redesignated, 2 ems to the right;
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), as so 
        redesignated, by striking ``In selecting'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--In selecting''.
            (3) in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``committed or'' and by inserting ``except as provided in 
        paragraph (2), committed or''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Exception for long-distance route corridor.--For the 
        purposes of this subsection, the Secretary shall not consider 
        committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for operating or 
        capital costs for any intercity passenger rail corridor on a 
        long-distance route.''.
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