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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1795 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit certain revenues of private 

providers of public transportation by vanpool received from providing 

public transportation to be used for the purpose of acquiring rolling 

stock, and to permit certain expenditures of private vanpool contractors 

to be credited toward the local matching share of the costs of public 

transportation projects. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 15, 2009 

Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. BEGICH) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit certain 

revenues of private providers of public transportation 

by vanpool received from providing public transportation 

to be used for the purpose of acquiring rolling stock, 

and to permit certain expenditures of private vanpool 

contractors to be credited toward the local matching 

share of the costs of public transportation projects. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Private Investment in 

3 Commuter Vanpooling Act of 2009’’. 

4 SEC. 2. GOVERNMENT’S SHARE OF COSTS FOR PUBLIC 

5 TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. 

6 Section 5323(i) of title 49, United States Code, is 

7 amended by adding at the end the following: 

8 ‘‘(3) COSTS INCURRED BY PRIVATE PROVIDERS

9 OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BY VANPOOL.— 

10 ‘‘(A) LOCAL MATCHING SHARE.—The local 

11 matching share provided by a recipient of as12 sistance for a capital project under this chapter 

13 may include any amounts expended by a private 

14 provider of public transportation by vanpool for 

15 the acquisition of rolling stock to be used by 

16 such private provider in the recipient’s service 

17 area, excluding any amounts the provider may 

18 have received in Federal, State, or local govern19 ment assistance for such acquisition. 

20 ‘‘(B) USE OF REVENUES.—A private pro21 vider of public transportation by vanpool may 

22 use revenues it receives in the provision of pub23 lic transportation service in the service area of 

24 a recipient of assistance under this chapter that 

25 are in excess of the private provider’s operating 

26 costs for the purpose of acquiring rolling stock, 


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1 if the private provider enters into a legally bind2 ing agreement with the recipient that requires 

3 the private provider to use the rolling stock in 

4 the recipient’s service area. 

5 ‘‘(C) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph, 

6 the following definitions apply: 

7 ‘‘(i) PRIVATE PROVIDER OF PUBLIC

8 TRANSPORTATION BY VANPOOL.—The term 

9 ‘private provider of public transportation 

10 by vanpool’ means a private entity pro11 viding vanpool services in the service area 

12 of a recipient of assistance under this 

13 chapter using a commuter highway vehicle 

14 or vanpool vehicle. 

15 ‘‘(ii) COMMUTER HIGHWAY VEHICLE; 

16 VANPOOL VEHICLE.—The term ‘commuter 

17 highway vehicle’ or ‘vanpool vehicle’ means 

18 any vehicle— 

19 ‘‘(I) the seating capacity of which 

20 is at least 6 adults (not including the 

21 driver); and 

22 ‘‘(II) at least 80 percent of the 

23 mileage use of which can be reason24 ably expected to be for the purposes 

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1 tion with travel between their resi2 dences and their place of employ3 ment.’’. 

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