[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6365 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6365

 To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed 
   rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting 
                 construction, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2022

 Mr. Ellzey (for himself and Mr. Brady) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed 
   rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting 
                 construction, 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. LAND ACQUISITION FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL.

    (a) In General.--The Surface Transportation Board may not approve 
any high-speed rail project--
            (1) to be built across a distance of fewer than 10 miles; 
        and
            (2) before all land needed for the project is acquired.
    (b) High-Speed Rail Defined.--In this Act, the term ``high-speed 
rail'' means passenger ground transportation across a railroad or using 
magnetic levitation systems where a speed of 125 miles per hour can 
reasonably be expected to occur.
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