Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act

3.0.0 1259 2025-05-27T14:15:52Z 2025-05-27T14:15:52Z Senate S S 2023-04-25 118 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-04-25T19:46:55Z 2023-04-25 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2023-04-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N Transportation and Public Works Transportation and Public Works 2023-05-05T13:00:40Z

00 2023-04-25 Introduced in Senate 2023-09-13T12:16:08Z Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation from awarding additional financial assistance for a transit or rail project if (1) the overall projected cost to complete the project exceeds the original cost projection by at least $1 billion, and (2) the operational and administrative costs to provide the service are projected to exceed the revenues generated from ridership over the next decade.

Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act Display Title 45 Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act 2024-07-24T15:22:33Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act 2024-05-24T13:40:38Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to prohibit the provision of Federal assistance to transit and rail projects with significant cost overruns and that are projected to lose money, and for other purposes. 2023-05-03T03:13:48Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s1259is/xml/BILLS-118s1259is.xml 2023-04-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.