[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 909 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 909

 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, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 5, 2011

  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

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                                 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, 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 ``Private Investment in Commuter 
Vanpooling Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. GOVERNMENT'S SHARE OF COSTS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.

    Section 5323 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(q) Costs Incurred by Private Providers of Public Transportation 
by Vanpool.--
            ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection, the following 
        definitions shall apply:
                    ``(A) Private provider of public transportation by 
                vanpool.--The term `private provider of public 
                transportation by vanpool' means a private entity 
                that--
                            ``(i) provides vanpool services in the 
                        service area of a recipient of assistance under 
                        this chapter using a commuter highway vehicle 
                        or vanpool vehicle; and
                            ``(ii) has entered into a service agreement 
                        with a recipient of assistance under this 
                        chapter.
                    ``(B) Commuter highway vehicle or vanpool 
                vehicle.--The term `commuter highway vehicle or vanpool 
                vehicle' means any vehicle--
                            ``(i) the seating capacity of which is not 
                        fewer than 6 adults (not including the driver); 
                        and
                            ``(ii) not less than 80 percent of the 
                        mileage use of which is reasonably expected to 
                        be for the purpose of transporting commuters in 
                        connection with travel between their residences 
                        and their place of employment.
            ``(2) Local matching share.--The non-Federal share of the 
        cost of a capital project under this chapter may include an 
        amount equal to--
                    ``(A) any amount expended by a private provider of 
                public transportation by vanpool for the acquisition of 
                rolling stock to be used by the private provider of 
                public transportation by vanpool in the service area of 
                the recipient; less
                    ``(B) any amount the private provider of public 
                transportation by vanpool has received from the Federal 
                Government or a State or local government for the 
                acquisition of the rolling stock.
            ``(3) Use of revenues.--A private provider of public 
        transportation by vanpool may use revenues received from 
        providing public transportation service in the service area of 
        a recipient of assistance under this chapter that are in excess 
        of the operating costs of the private provider of public 
        transportation by vanpool for the purpose of acquiring rolling 
        stock, if the private provider of public transportation by 
        vanpool enters into a legally binding agreement with the 
        recipient that requires the private provider of public 
        transportation by vanpool to use the rolling stock in the 
        service area of the recipient.''
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