Title: TOURISM Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Travel Optimization by Updating and Revitalizing Infrastructure to Support Mobilization Act or the TOURISM Act
This bill changes requirements for and contents of the National Travel and Tourism Infrastructure Strategic Plan. The changes include requiring the plan to address strategies to leverage infrastructure investments to support the travel and tourism economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2015 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2015

 To amend the FAST Act to require an update to the national travel and 
     tourism infrastructure strategic plan, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2021

    Ms. Rosen (for herself, Mr. Wicker, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Scott of 
  Florida, Ms. Cortez Masto, and Mr. Blunt) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the FAST Act to require an update to the national travel and 
     tourism infrastructure strategic plan, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Travel Optimization by Updating and 
Revitalizing Infrastructure to Support Mobilization Act'' or the 
``TOURISM Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL TRAVEL AND TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGIC PLAN.

    Section 1431(e) of the FAST Act (49 U.S.C. 301 note; Public Law 
114-94) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (7) as 
        subparagraphs (A) though (G), respectively, and indenting 
        appropriately;
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so 
        redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking ``Not later than 3 years after the 
                date of enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``Not 
                later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the 
                TOURISM Act''; and
                    (B) by striking ``plan that includes'' and 
                inserting the following: ``plan--
            ``(1) to develop an immediate-term and long-term strategy, 
        including policy recommendations across all modes of 
        transportation, for the Department and other agencies to use 
        infrastructure investments to revive the travel and tourism 
        industry and the overall travel and tourism economy in the wake 
        of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
            ``(2) that includes''; and
            (3) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated), by 
                inserting ``, including consideration of the impacts of 
                the COVID-19 pandemic'' after ``network'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (D) (as so redesignated), by 
                inserting ``of regional significance'' after 
                ``corridors'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (F) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (D) in subparagraph (G) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; 
                and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(H) an identification of possible infrastructure 
                investments that create recovery opportunities for 
                small, underserved, minority, and rural businesses in 
                the travel and tourism industry, including efforts to 
                preserve and protect the scenic but often less-traveled 
                roads that promote tourism and economic development 
                throughout the country.''.
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