[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3728 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3728

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

                            January 29, 2026

Mr. Sheehy (for himself and Mr. Merkley) 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 
Enhancement 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.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For the purposes of this 
                subsection, the Secretary shall not require or consider 
                committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for any 
                part of the program described in subsection (a) for any 
                intercity passenger rail corridor on a long-distance 
                route.
                    ``(B) Application.--The exception provided in 
                subparagraph (A) shall apply to any long-distance route 
                corridor accepted into the program on or after October 
                1, 2023.''.
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