Long-Distance Corridor Relief Enhancement Act

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