[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3810 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3810

  To amend title 23, United States Code, and SAFETEA-LU to direct the 
   Secretary of Transportation to give preference to certain surface 
transportation projects that achieve cost efficiencies through the use 
of project development, finance, operations, and delivery methods, such 
                as design-build, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2015

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 23, United States Code, and SAFETEA-LU to direct the 
   Secretary of Transportation to give preference to certain surface 
transportation projects that achieve cost efficiencies through the use 
of project development, finance, operations, and delivery methods, such 
                as design-build, 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 ``Design-Build Incentive Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. SELECTION OF TIFIA PROJECTS.

    Section 602(b) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Use of innovative project development and delivery 
        methods.--In selecting among eligible projects, the Secretary 
        shall give preference to those applicants for a project who 
        demonstrate that the project will achieve cost efficiencies 
        through the use of innovative project development, finance, 
        operations, or delivery methods, such as design-build.''.

SEC. 3. SELECTION OF PROJECTS OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.

    Section 1301(f)(3) of SAFETEA-LU (Public Law 109-59; 23 U.S.C. 101 
note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
        subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) shall give preference to project applications 
                that demonstrate that the project will achieve cost 
                efficiencies through the use of innovative project 
                development, finance, operations, or delivery methods, 
                such as design-build;''.
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