S 1352
112th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Canada
Latin America
Mexico
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
A bill to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to include freight and passenger rail among eligible uses of funding under the coordinated border infrastructure program and to reauthorize that program.
Introduced: July 13, 2011
Introduced by:
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
Democratic
· New York
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Became law
Jul 13, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jul 13, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to make eligible for use of a state's apportionment of coordinated border infrastructure program funds certain improvements for the safe movement of freight and passenger rail at or across the borders between the United States and Canada and the United States and Mexico.
Reauthorizes the program through FY2015, indexed for inflation.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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1
Cosponsors
1