Expedite Transit Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1734
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL]
Introduced: 2015-07-09
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public transit

Transportation programs funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-09
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Expedite Transit Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century with respect to the good repair certification requirement for recipients of funding under the pilot program to demonstrate whether innovative project development and delivery methods or innovative financing arrangements can expedite project delivery for certain meritorious new fixed guideway capital projects and core capacity improvement projects.</p> <p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) may waive the requirement that a recipient desiring to participate in the program certify that its existing public transportation system is in a state of good repair if the recipient seeks to carry out a core capacity improvement project which will allow the recipient to make substantial progress in achieving a state of good repair.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1734 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 9, 2015 Mr. Kirk introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to waive the state of good repair certification requirement for participants in the pilot program for expedited project delivery.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Expedite Transit Act of 2015 . 2. Waiver of state of good repair certification for pilot program for expedited project delivery Section 20008(b) of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act ( 49 U.S.C. 5309 note; Public Law 112–141 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (5)(D), by inserting before a certification the following: except as provided in paragraph (8), ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (8) Waiver of state of good repair certification The Secretary may waive the requirement under paragraph (5)(D) for a recipient that seeks to carry out a core capacity improvement project if the Secretary determines that the project will allow the recipient to make substantial progress in achieving a state of good repair for the recipient's public transportation system. .