Subject Railroads | Current

State	Bill	Summary/Title	Last Action
US	SB744	Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act [Detail][Text]	2013-05-21 Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
US	HB1567	New Fair Deal CEO's Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-05-03 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Committee
US	HB1505	Holocaust Rail Justice Act - Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and Dec... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-30 To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet Committee
US	HB1513	Requires the inclusion of the land and interests commonly known as Gettysburg Train Station and its immediate surroundings in the Borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the land and interests located along Plum Run in Cumberland Township, Pennsylva... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-25 To House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Committee
US	HB505	Balancing Act - Title I: Repeal Sequester - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Controlled Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal certain sequestration requirements for enforcemen... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee
US	HB946	National Right-to-Work Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
US	SB782	Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act - Requires the inclusion of the Gettysburg Train Station in Gettysburg National Military Park, including land located in close proximity to the Train Station that is in the Borough of Gettysburg, Pennsy... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-23 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
US	SB770	President Street Station Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the President Street Station, a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, to evaluate the terminal's national significance and determine... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-18 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
US	HB1544	National High Performance Passenger Rail Transportation-Oriented Development Act of 2013 [Detail][Text]	2013-04-15 To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Committee
US	HB1539	Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for Amtrak use, after the Secretary has received and approved a project engineering and financial plan, to complete New York tunnel life sa... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-15 To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Committee
US	HB867	Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013 - Prohibits stealing specified metal being used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, the theft of which harms critical infrastructure, including metal used as part of an electrical substation, power line,... [Detail][Text]	2013-04-08 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
US	SB638	Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2013 - Amends the Clayton Act to grant the United States exclusive authority to bring suit for injunctive relief against a common carrier that is not a rail common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Surfa... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-21 To Senate Judiciary Committee
US	HB949	Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013 - Revises Buy American requirements with respect to federal-aid highways, capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service (rail grants), and Amtrak, particularly the handling of waiver request... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-06 To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
US	HB974	Multimodal Opportunities Via Enhanced Freight Act of 2013 or MOVE Freight Act of 2013 - Defines the "national freight network" as a network composed of highways, railways, navigable waterways, seaports, airports, freight intermodal connecto... [Detail][Text]	2013-03-06 To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
US	HB907	Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act - Authorizes project development for specified Metrorail new fixed guideway capital projects in Virginia. [Detail][Text]	2013-03-01 To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Committee
US	SB411	Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for railroad track maintenance, to: (1) expand the types of maintenance expenditures eligible for such credit, and (2) ex... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-28 To Senate Finance Committee
US	SB394	Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013 - Prohibits stealing specified metal being used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, the theft of which harms critical infrastructure, including metal used as part of an electrical substation, power line,... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-27 To Senate Judiciary Committee
US	SB387	American Infrastructure Investment Fund Act - Establishes the American Infrastructure Investment Fund in the Department of Transportation (DOT) to: (1) invest in infrastructure projects that increase or otherwise improve U.S. economic output, product... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-26 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
US	SB329	Sustainable Energy Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to reduce or eliminate royalty payments for oil and natural gas leases in the Outer Conti... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-14 To Senate Finance Committee
US	HB721	Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for railroad track maintenance, to: (1) expand the types of maintenance expenditures eligible for such credit, and (2) ex... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-14 To House Ways And Means Committee
US	SB204	National Right-to-Work Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to... [Detail][Text]	2013-02-04 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 11.
US	HB152	Division A: Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2013 to specified federal agencies and programs for expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy. Tit... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-29 Became Public Law No: 113-2.
US	SB4	Rebuild America Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: create jobs and support businesses while improving the nation's global competitiveness by modernizing and strengthening our national infrastructure; invest resources i... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-22 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
US	HB243	Bowles-Simpson Plan of Lowering America's Debt Act - Prohibits the total amount of appropriations to the White House for the Executive Office of the President, to the President, and to Congress for FY2014-FY2018 from exceeding 85% of the total amount... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-14 To House Budget Committee
US	HR15	Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should: (1) continue to enhance security against terrorist attack and other security threats to our nation's rail and mass transit systems and o... [Detail][Text]	2013-01-03 To House Homeland Security Committee