H.R. 7405
119th Congress
House
Rail and Highway Transmission Planning Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study on using highway rights-of-way and rail rights-of-way as locations on which to construct high-voltage tran… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study on using highway rights-of-way and rail rights-of-way as locations on which to construct high-voltage transmission infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 5, 2026
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 5, 2026
Introduced in House
Ask about this bill
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
9
- AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
- BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
- CSX CORPORATION
- CSX CORPORATION
- BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
- AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Federal Railroad Administration
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Surface Transportation Board (STB)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- White House Office
Cosponsors
3
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7405: Rail and Highway Transmission Planning Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7405/
"H.R. 7405: Rail and Highway Transmission Planning Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7405/.
H.R. 7405, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7405/.
[H.R. 7405: Rail and Highway Transmission Planning Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7405/)