H.R. 22: FAST Act

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H.R. 22: FAST Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-06 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Became Public Law No: 114-94.

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FAST Act

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Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act or the FAST Act DIVISION A--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION (Sec. 1002) Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to reduce the amount apportioned for a surface transportation program, project, or activity for FY2016 by amounts apportioned or allocated under any extension of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) for the period beginning October 1, 2015, and ending upon enactment of this Act. TITLE I--FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS Subtitle A--Authorizations and Programs (Sec. 1101) Reauthorizes through FY2020: certain core federal-aid highway programs; the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program; the federal lands, tribal transportation, and federal lands transportation and access programs; the territorial and Puerto Rico highway program; and nationally significant freight and highway projects. Requires the expenditure of at least 10% of amounts made available for federal-aid highways and public transportation programs through small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Directs states to compile annual lists of small disadvantaged business enterprises according to minimum uniform criteria established by DOT. (Sec. 1102) Prescribes obligation ceilings for certain federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, with specified exceptions. Prescribes requirements, including a formula, and restrictions for certain FY2016-FY2020 distributions from the obligation limitation for federal-aid highways. Directs DOT to redistribute to the states any federal-aid highway program funds that, because of any imposed obligation limitation, will not be allocated or otherwise made available to them for obligation for surface transportation program projects. (Sec. 1104) Authorizes appropriations through FY2020 for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) administrative expenses. Revises and renames the surface transportation program as the surface transportation block grant program (STBGP) (as established by section 1109 of this Act). Requires DOT to set-aside specified amounts of a state's base apportionment of core program funds for the national highway freight program and metropolitan transportation planning. Directs DOT also to reserve certain amounts to states for: the national highway performance program for FY2019 and FY2020, and the STBGP through FY2020. (Sec. 1105) Authorizes DOT to make competitive grants to a state or group of states, a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) that serves an urbanized area with a population of more than than 200,000 individuals, a unit of local government or group of local governments, or other specified entities to furnish financial assistance for nationally significant freight and highway projects. Requires DOT to reserve out of such grant amounts for each fiscal year: 10% for small projects, and at least 25% for projects in rural areas. Makes the maximum federal share of project costs 60%. (Sec. 1106) Revises requirements for the national highway performance program. Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public-private partnership, or any other legal entity. Allows a state's apportionment to be obligated for projects: for the reconstruction or rehabilitation of federal-aid highway bridges (non-National Highway System bridges), and to reduce the risk of failure of critical transportation infrastructure. (Sec. 1107) Revises requirements for the emergency relief fund program. Treats as an eligible expense for emergency relief program funding the costs of disaster debris removal for projects for the repair or reconstruction of federal-aid highways on tribal transportation facilities, federal lands transportation facilities, or other federally-owned roads that are open to public travel. (Sec. 1108) Revises and reauthorizes requirements for the set-aside of highway safety improvement program funds for states for the same period for the elimination of hazards and the installation of protective devices at railway-highway crossings. (Sec. 1109) Establishes in DOT an surface transportation block grant program (STBGP). Requires states to obligate for each fiscal year specified graduated percentages of apportioned funds in: urbanized areas with a population of over 200,000, and rural areas with a population greater than 5,000. Directs DOT to reserve certain amounts of the state apportionment of funds for each fiscal year for surface transportation projects or activities or transportation alternatives projects. Requires states to obligate an amount of reserved funds for each fiscal year equal to the amount apportioned to the state for the surface transportation program for FY2009 for recreational trails projects. (Sec. 1110) Reduces the amount DOT must deduct from FHWA administrative funds each fiscal year for highway use tax evasion projects. (Sec. 1111) Prescribes requirements for the bundling of two or more similar projects for the replacement or repair of structurally deficient bridges. (Sec. 1112) Revises formulae for certain allocations of funds to states for construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities. Reauthorizes the program through FY2020. Certain funds are made available for the National Ferry Database. (Sec. 1113) Revises the highway safety improvement program. Makes eligible as highway safety improvement projects any installation of vehicle-to-infrastructure communication equipment, pedestrian hybrid beacons, roadway improvements that provide separation between pedestrians and motor vehicles, and other types of infrastructure safety projects. Authorizes states to elect not to collect certain data on unpaved public roads regarding the model inventory of roadways if certain requirements are met. Eliminates the definition of "state highway safety improvement programs." Requires DOT to review best practices for implementation of roadway safety infrastructure improvements to reduce the number or severity of commercial motor vehicle accidents. (Sec. 1114) Revises congestion mitigation and air quality improvement (CMAQ) program requirements. Authorizes states to obligate the apportionment of CMAQ program funds for projects for the installation of vehicle-to-infrastructure communication equipment in nonattainment or maintenance areas for particulate matter. Declares that requirements for priority use of congestion mitigation and air quality project funds in PM2.5 nonattainment or maintenance areas shall not apply in any state with a population density of 80 or fewer persons per square mile of land area if certain criteria are met. Authorizes states or metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) also to elect to obligate PM2.5 priority funds to the most cost-effective CMAQ projects to reduce emissions from port-related landside nonroad or on-road equipment that operates within a PM2.5 nonattainment or maintenance area. (Sec. 1115) Increases the authorization of appropriations for the Puerto Rico highway and territorial highway programs. (Sec. 1116) Revises national freight program requirements. Renames the national freight network the National Highway Freight Network. Authorizes the MPO representative in an urbanized area with a population of 500,000 or more to designate a public road within the borders of that area of the state as a critical urban freight corridor. Authorizes the state to do the same for an urbanized area with a population under 500,000. Requires states that have not met, or made significant progress toward meeting, certain performance targets related to freight movement of the state to report biennially to DOT on actions the state will undertake to achieve the targets. Prescribes requirements for the use of apportioned funds, including development of intelligent freight transportation systems. The term "intelligent freight transportation system" means: innovative or intelligent technological transportation systems, infrastructure, or facilities; or communications or information processing systems that improve the efficiency or safety of freight movements on the federal-aid highway system. (Sec. 1117) Revises the federal lands and tribal transportation programs. Requires entities carrying out a project under the tribal transportation program to report annually to DOT and to the Department of the Interior on specified project data. Directs DOT to: report to Congress on the quality of transportation safety data collected by states, counties, and Indian tribes for transportation systems and its relevance to improving the collection and sharing of data on crashes on Indian reservations; and identify and evaluate in a separate study any options for improving safety on public roads on Indian reservations. (Sec. 1118) Revises funding requirements for the tribal transportation program to: reduce from 6% to 5% of authorized program funds the maximum amount that either DOT or Interior may use for certain administrative expenses, and increase from 2% to 3% of such funds the allocation for specified bridge projects. (Sec. 1119) Extends the federal lands transportation program and its funds allocations to the transportation systems of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. (Sec. 1120) Authorizes DOT to conduct cooperative research and technology deployment in coordination with federal land management agencies for transportation planning of federal lands and tribal transportation facilities projects. Requires DOT to combine and use no more than 5% of federal lands transportation program and federal lands access program funds for transportation planning activities for federal lands transportation facilities, federal lands access transportation facilities, and other federally-owned roads open to public travel. Allows the use of such funds also for: inspections of federally-owned bridges even if not included in the national federal lands transportation facility inventory, and transportation planning activities carried out by federal land management agencies. (Sec. 1121) Directs DOT to establish a tribal transportation self-governance program via a compact with an Indian tribe, subject to negotiated annual written funding arrangements with the tribe. Requires any funding agreement to authorize the Indian tribe to plan, conduct, consolidate, administer, and receive full tribal share funding, tribal transit formula funding, and funding to tribes from DOT-administered discretionary and competitive grants for all programs, services, functions, and activities to carry out tribal transportation programs and DOT-administered programs, services, functions, and activities. (Sec. 1122) Directs DOT to issue guidance on working with state departments of transportation that request assistance from FHWA division offices to: review principal arterials within a state that were added to the National Highway System (NHS) as of October 1, 2012, and identify any necessary functional classification changes to rural and urban principal arterials. Requires DOT to: review the NHS modification process, and ensure that a state may submit requests to modify the NHS by withdrawing a road from it. (Sec. 1123) Directs DOT to establish a program to fund construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of nationally significant federal lands and tribal transportation projects. Authorizes appropriations through FY2020. Subtitle B--Planning and Performance Management (Sec. 1201) Revises requirements for metropolitan transportation planning. Prescribes requirements for selection of MPO officials or representatives. Authorizes MPOs serving a transportation management area to develop a congestion management plan that includes projects and strategies that will be considered in the MPO's transportation improvement program. Treats the Bi-State MPO Region as: an MPO, a transportation management area, and an urbanized area (comprising a population of 145,000 in California and a population of 65,000 in Nevada). Prescribes formulae for the suballocation of STBGP and transportation alternatives program funds for a fiscal year for the Bi-State MPO Region. (Sec. 1202) Revises requirements for statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning. Subtitle C--Acceleration of Project Delivery (Sec. 1301)Prescribes requirements for DOT in highway and public transportation planning to preserve certain historic sites, especially by aligning, to the maximum extent practicable, specified preservation requirements with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and any avoidance alternative analysis it requires. (Sec. 1303) Exempts from consideration for parkland, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, and historic site preservation purposes any common post-1945 concrete or steel bridge or culvert already exempt from individual review of its effect on any historic property. (Sec. 1304) Prescribes procedures for accelerating the project delivery decisionmaking process regarding: environmental review of highway, public transportation, or multimodal projects; coordination among relevant agencies in meeting project deadlines; public availability of the status and progress of projects requiring compliance with NEPA review and other federal, state, or local approval; integration of planning and environmental review of projects between the lead agency (DOT) and participating federal and non-federal agencies; adoption of departmental environmental assessments or environmental impact statements of other operating administrations; and federal coordination of the environmental review and permitting process for transportation projects. Grants DOT, as federal lead agency in the environmental review process for a highway, public transportation capital, or multimodal project, authority and responsibility to consider and respond to comments received from participating federal and non-federal agencies on matters within their special expertise or jurisdiction. (Sec. 1305) Revises requirements for the integration of planning and environmental review. (Sec. 1306) Changes from discretionary to mandatory the authority of federal agencies responsible for the environmental review of a transportation project to give substantial weight to recommendations in the programmatic mitigation plans of states and MPOs. (Sec. 1307) Requires DOT, upon state request, to give technical assistance to a state assuming responsibility for making categorical exclusion determinations for highway or related projects. (A "categorical exclusion" under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.) (Sec. 1308) Revises requirements for termination of a state from the surface transportation project delivery program, increasing from 30 to 120 days the time DOT must give a state to take corrective action. Authorizes DOT, in cooperation with state officials, to carry out education, training, peer-exchange, and other initiatives to assist states in developing capacity building for environmental review of projects under NEPA. (Sec. 1309) Directs DOT to establish a pilot program to authorize states to conduct environmental review of projects under state laws instead of NEPA. (Sec. 1310) Revises requirements for application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects, including acceleration of decisionmaking in environmental reviews. (Sec. 1312) Authorizes a public entity receiving DOT financial assistance for one or more projects, or for a program of projects, for a public purpose to request DOT to allow it to furnish funds to federal agencies, including DOT, state agencies, and Indian tribes participating in the environmental planning and review process for the project, projects, or program, but only to support activities that directly and meaningfully contribute to expediting and improving permitting and review processes. (Sec. 1313) Directs DOT, in coordination with federal agencies likely to have substantive review or approval responsibilities under federal law, to develop a coordinated and concurrent environmental review and permitting process for transportation projects, meeting specified criteria, when initiating an environmental impact statement. (Sec. 1314) Amends MAP-21 to require inflation adjustments to specified dollar amounts indicating the maximum federal assistance to certain federal-aid highway projects which must be categorically excluded from the requirements relating to environmental assessments or environmental impact statements. (Sec. 1315) Directs DOT to develop a template programmatic agreement with states that provides for efficient procedures for evaluating categorical exclusion determinations. (Sec. 1316) Directs DOT to: allow states to assume DOT responsibilities for project design, plans, specifications, estimates, contract awards, and inspection of projects, on both a project-specific and programmatic basis; and recommend to Congress legislation to permit the assumption of additional authorities by states, including about real estate acquisition and project design. (Sec. 1317) Directs DOT to examine ways to modernize and improve the NEPA environmental review process for federal-aid highway projects. (Sec. 1318) Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess progress made under this Act, MAP-21, and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to accelerate the delivery of federal-aid highway and highway safety construction projects and public transportation capital projects by streamlining the environmental review and permitting process. Subtitle D--Miscellaneous (Sec. 1401) Prohibits, through FY2020, the use of a state's apportionment of highway safety improvement program funds to purchase, operate, or maintain an automated traffic enforcement system, except any located in school zones. Defines "automated traffic enforcement system" to mean any camera that captures an image of a vehicle for purposes of traffic law enforcement. (Sec. 1402) Requires DOT to compile and make available on the DOT public website any data on the amounts of federal-aid highway program funds made available under this title for each fiscal year. (Sec. 1403) Requires DOT to make available certain additional funds deposited into the HTF Highway Account or Mass Transit Account for federal-aid highway programs. Reauthorizes appropriations through FY2020. (Sec. 1404) Requires a design for new construction or rehabilitation of NHS highways to take into account, in addition to other specified criteria, the environment and safety for other modes of transportation, as well as cost savings by utilizing flexibility in current design guidance and regulations. (Sec. 1405) Requires any requested or required justification report for a project that would add a point of access to, or exit from, the Interstate System to include new or modified freeway-to-crossroad interchanges inside a transportation management area. (Sec. 1407) Makes eligible for funding under the National Highway Performance Program and the Surface Transportation Program any projects for the installation of vehicle-to-infrastructure communication equipment. (Sec. 1409) Declares that, for Interstate System (IS) vehicle weight limitation purposes, any vehicle carrying fluid milk products shall be considered a load that cannot be easily dismantled or divided, and so are eligible for a special permit. (Sec. 1410) Exempts certain heavy-duty tow and recovery vehicles traveling on federal highways from federal vehicle weight limitations. Allows federal truck weight limitations to remain in place on specified highways in Texas and Arkansas. Directs DOT to waive federal vehicle weight limitations for certain logging vehicles operating on IS highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Prohibits states from enforcing against an emergency vehicle a vehicle weight limit (up to a maximum vehicle weight of 86,000 pounds) of less than: 24,000 pounds on a single steering axle, 33,500 pounds on a single drive axle, 62,000 pounds on a tandem axle, or 52,000 pounds on a tandem rear drive steer axle. Defines the term "emergency vehicle" to mean a vehicle designed to be used under emergency conditions to: transport personnel and equipment, and support the suppression of fires and mitigation of other hazardous situations. Allows natural gas vehicles to exceed any vehicle weight limit (up to a maximum vehicle weight of 82,000 pounds) by an amount equal to the difference between: the weight of the vehicle attributable to the vehicle's natural gas tank and fueling system, and the weight of a comparable diesel tank and fueling system. (Sec. 1411)Revises requirements for the toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries program. Requires over-the-road buses that serve the public to have access to toll facilities equal to that of public transportation buses. Defines the term "over-the-road bus" to mean a bus characterized by an elevated passenger deck located over a baggage compartment. Revises certain exceptions to high occupancy vehicle (HOV) facility requirements. Authorizes the public authority to allow a public transportation vehicle use of HOV facilities if it provides equal access for all public transportation vehicles and over-the-road buses serving the public. Authorizes the public authority also to allow use of HOV facilities by: vehicles if a toll is paid and the authority ensures that over-the-road buses serving the public have the same access as public transportation buses, and alternative fuel vehicles and new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles provided certain requirements are met. Requires a public authority to submit to DOT for approval, within 180 days after a HOV facility is considered degraded, a plan to bring the facility back into compliance with the minimum average operating speed. ("Degraded" means failure of vehicles operating on HOV lanes to maintain minimum average operating speed 90% of the time over a consecutive 180-day period during morning and/or evening weekday peak hour periods.) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to revise requirements for the interstate system reconstruction and rehabilitation pilot program. Prescribes requirements for final approval of state applications to collect tolls on highways, bridges, or tunnels for projects for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of interstate highway corridors. (Sec. 1412) Authorizes payment from the state apportionment of federal-aid highway program funds for projects at railway-highway grade crossings to eliminate hazards posed by blocked grade crossings due to idling trains. (Sec. 1413) Directs DOT to designate national electric vehicle charging and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling corridors that identify the need for electric vehicle charging, hydrogen fueling, propane fueling, and natural gas fueling infrastructures at strategic locations along major national highways. Authorizes the General Services Administration (GSA) to install (on a reimbursable basis) battery recharging stations in GSA-owned parking areas for vehicles of GSA employees, tenant federal agencies, and other authorized individuals. Requires the GSA or the federal agency the charge fees to individuals to use such stations. (Sec. 1414) Revises federal requirements for minimum state penalties for repeat offenders for driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence. Adds a 24-7 sobriety program to criteria for state repeat offender laws. Specifies exceptions to the requirement of an ignition interlock device on a vehicle of an individual with restricted driving privileges (Sec. 1415) Authorizes as an eligible cost for a federal-aid highway construction project the cost of improving habitat and forage for pollinators (i.e., bees, birds, bats, Monarch and other butterflies) on rights-of-way adjacent to such highways. Requires DOT, in conjunction with willing states, to carry out programs that encourage: integrated vegetation management practices on roadsides and other transportation rights-of-way, including reduced mowing; and the development of habitat and forage for pollinators through planting of native forbs and grasses, including noninvasive, native milkweed species. (Sec. 1416) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to revise the high priority Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor of the NHS between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, to include Rocky Mount, Williamston, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Includes Texas State Highway 44 from United States Route 59 at Freer, Texas, to Texas State Highway 358 as part of the high priority Lower Rio Grande Valley Corridor of the NHS in Texas. Designates as a high priority corridor on the NHS, as part of Interstate Route I-11, the Intermountain West Corridor from the vicinity of Las Vegas, Nevada, extending north along U.S. Route 95, terminating at Interstate Route 80. Declares as high priority corridors on the NHS as well as segments of the IS: U.S. Route 117/Interstate Route 795 from U.S. Route 70 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, to Interstate Route 40 west of Faison, Sampson County, North Carolina; U.S. Route 70 from its intersection with Interstate Route 40 in Garner, Wake County, North Carolina, to the Port at Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina; Sonoran Corridor along State Route 410 connecting Interstate Route 19 and Interstate Route 10 south of the Tucson International Airport; the Central Texas Corridor commencing at the logical terminus of Interstate 10, and generally following portions of U.S. Route 190 eastward passing in the vicinity Fort Hood, Killeen, Belton, Temple, Bryan, College Station, Huntsville, Livingston, Woodville, and to the logical terminus of Texas Highway 63 at the Sabine River Bridge at Burrs Crossing; Interstate Route 81 in New York from its intersection with Interstate Route 86 to the United States-Canadian border; Interstate Route 70 from Denver, Colorado, to Salt Lake City, Utah; Oregon 99W Newberg-Dundee Bypass Route between Newberg, Oregon, and Dayton, Oregon; and Interstate Route 205 in Oregon from its intersection with Interstate Route 5 to the Columbia River. Amends the SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008 to direct DOT to designate as a future Interstate Route 69 Spur, the Audubon Parkway between Henderson, Kentucky, and Owensboro, Kentucky, and as a future Interstate Route 65 and 66 Spur, the William H. Natcher Parkway between Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Owensboro, Kentucky. (Sec. 1417) Makes eligible for work zone safety training program grants the development, updating, and delivery of training courses on guard rail installation, maintenance, and inspection. (Sec. 1418) Amends MAP-21 to direct DOT to set-aside for each of FY2016-FY2020 a specified amount of highway safety improvement program funds before making any apportionment for FHWA administrative expenses. (Sec. 1419) Amends ISTEA to repeal the requirement for annual reports to Congress on continuing studies of the fundamental chemical and physical properties of petroleum asphalts and modified asphalts used in highway construction. Amends SAFETEA-LU to repeal the requirement for an annual report to Congress on the express lanes demonstration program. (Sec. 1420) Authorizes DOT to exercise all existing flexibilities under and exceptions to the requirements for federal-aid highway projects and other DOT administered requirements, in whole or in part. (Sec. 1421) Requires DOT, in cooperation with states, to develop guidance that encourages the use of programmatic approaches to project delivery, expedited procurement techniques, and other best practices for states and the FHWA to facilitate the timely expenditure of federal funds for federal-aid highway projects. (Sec. 1422) Directs the FHWA to commission the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences to study the performance of bridges funded under the innovative bridge research and construction program in meeting program goals. (Sec. 1423) Authorizes a state transportation agency to relinquish park-and-ride lot facilities, or portions of them, to a local government agency for highway purposes if authorized to do so under state law, and the relinquishment meets certain requirements. (Sec. 1424) Authorizes the FHWA to establish a pilot program that allows a state to utilize innovative approaches to maintain the right-of-way of federal-aid highways. (Sec. 1425) Authorizes states to allow on the IS the maintenance of service club, charitable association, or religious service signs of a certain size, provided the state notifies the FHWA. (Sec. 1426) Requires the FHWA to appoint a Motorcyclist Advisory Council on infrastructure issues of concern to motorcyclists. (Sec. 1427) Expresses the sense of Congress that the FHWA should do all it can to protect the safety of construction workers in highway work zones. (Sec. 1428) Directs DOT to encourage the FHWA to use durable, resilient, and sustainable materials and practices, including the use of geosynthetic materials and other innovative technologies for federal-aid highway projects. (Sec. 1429) Requires DOT to study methods for evaluating roadside highway safety hardware devices to improve the data collected on the devices. (Sec. 1430) Expresses the sense of Congress that DOT should utilize modeling and simulation technology to analyze highway and public transportation projects to ensure that they will reduce congestion and be cost effective. (Sec. 1431) Directs DOT to: establish a National Advisory Committee on Travel and Tourism Infrastructure, and develop and post on the DOT website a national travel and tourism infrastructure strategic plan. (Sec. 1432) Exempts from further environmental reviews, approvals, licensing, and permit requirements under specified laws any road, highway, or bridge in operation or under construction that is damaged by a declared emergency and reconstructed in the same location with the same dimensions and design as before the emergency. (Sec. 1433) Directs the GAO to report to Congress on FHWA administrative expenses funded from the HTF for the last three fiscal years. (Sec. 1434) Directs DOT to make every required report available on its public website. (Sec. 1435) Amends MAP-21 to reauthorize the federal share of costs for Appalachian development highway system projects through FY2050. Allows the federal share (currently a flat 100%) to be 100% or less, as determined by the state. (Sec. 1436) Reauthorizes through FY2020 the Appalachian Regional Development Program. Authorizes the Appalachian Regional Commission to give technical assistance, make grants, and enter into contracts in the Appalachian region for projects to increase affordable access to broadband networks throughout the Appalachian region and for related projects and activities. Authorizes funding. (Sec. 1437) Authorizes the governor of a state that shares a border with Canada or Mexico to designate up to 5% of its apportionment of STBGP funds for each fiscal year for border infrastructure projects. (Sec. 1438) Rescinds permanently on July 1, 2020, $7.569 billion of unobligated federal-aid highway funds apportioned among the states, except certain funds for the highway improvement, railway-highway crossings, and certain other highway programs. Prescribes formulae for determining the amounts to be rescinded among the states and within a state. (Sec. 1439) Authorizes the take of nesting swallows, between April 1 and August 31 of any year, without individual permit requirements, to facilitate bridge construction or repair projects, provided the Department of the Interior promulgates a regulation under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow this. (Sec. 1440) Allows recipients or subrecipients of federal-aid highway funds to: incur preliminary preconstruction development and engineering costs for an eligible project before receiving project authorization from the state, and request reimbursement of federal funds after project authorization is received. (Sec. 1441) Directs DOT to establish a regional infrastructure demonstration program to assist entities in developing improved infrastructure priorities and financing strategies for accelerated development of TIFIA-funded projects. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1442) Requires DOT to encourage each state and MPO to adopt design standards and best practices for surface transportation projects that provide safety for users of the surface transportation network. (Sec. 1443) Expresses the sense of Congress that Congress recognizes the valuable contributions made by the U.S. engineering industry to provide critical technical expertise, innovation, and local knowledge to federal and state agencies in order to deliver surface transportation projects to the public. (Sec. 1444) Directs the FHWA to continue the Every Day Counts initiative to work with states, local transportation agencies, and industry stakeholders to identify and deploy proven innovative best practices and products that accelerate transportation innovation deployment and project delivery as well as improve the environment and roadway safety. (Sec. 1445) Amends the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2004 to repeal the prohibition against the direct or indirect financing of water resources infrastructure projects receiving federal credit assistance with proceeds of any: obligation the interest on which is tax-exempt, or regarding which a qualified tax credit bond or a Build America Bond is allowable. (Sec. 1446) Makes various technical corrections to federal transportation laws. TITLE II--INNOVATIVE PROJECT FINANCE (Sec. 20001) Amends TIFIA to authorize as an eligible transportation infrastructure project cost the capitalizing of a rural projects fund using proceeds of secured loans made to state infrastructure banks to make loans for rural infrastructure projects. Revises TIFIA program eligibility requirements, adding projects for: public infrastructure near a fixed guideway transit facility, passenger rail station, intercity bus station, or intermodal facility; and capitalization of a rural projects fund. Requires DOT to make an expedited application process available to entities seeking secured loans under the TIFIA program. Requires the reservation of $2 million of TIFIA program funds for highway infrastructure projects anticipated not to exceed $75 million. Revises and reauthorizes through FY2020 the state infrastructure bank program. (Sec. 2002) Authorizes DOT to make payments to states pursuant to a long-term concession agreements for construction costs incurred on federal-aid highway projects. TITLE III--PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Federal Public Transportation Act of 2015 (Sec. 3003) Revises requirements for metropolitan as well as statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning. Prescribes requirements for selection of MPO representatives or officials. Authorizes MPOs serving a transportation management area to develop a congestion management plan that includes projects and strategies that will be considered in the MPO's transportation improvement program. Treats the Bi-State MPO Region (in and around Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada) as: an MPO, a transportation management area, and an urbanized area (comprising a population of 145,000 in California and of 65,000 in Nevada). (Sec. 3004) Revises requirements for the urbanized area formula public transportation grant program for an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000. Allows each public transportation system that is a party to a written agreement with one or more other public transportation systems within the urbanized area to allocate funds for the operating cost of equipment and facilities by a method other than by measuring vehicle revenue hours to follow the terms of the written agreement without regard to measured vehicle revenue hours. (Sec. 3005) Revises requirements for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program. Increases the caps on the cost and level of federal assistance for small start new fixed guideway capital projects or corridor-based bus rapid transit projects eligible for financing under fixed guideway capital investment grants. Eliminates the prerequisite for a new fixed guideway capital project to advance to the engineering phase that it be supported by policies and land use patterns that promote public transportation. Requires DOT to make necessary benefit, federal investment, and local financial commitment evaluations and ratings of small start projects, upon project sponsor request, upon completion of an environmental assessment under NEPA. Includes small start projects in programs of interrelated projects (together with new fixed guideway capital projects and core capacity improvement projects, as currently). Authorizes DOT to award such grants for new fixed guideway capital projects and core capacity improvement projects for both public transportation and intercity passenger rail service. Sets the federal share of project costs at up to 80%. Authorizes DOT to award up to eight capital investment grants to states and local governments to assist in financing new fixed guideway capital projects or small start projects and core capacity improvement projects. Prescribes requirements for the expedited approval of such projects. Limits grants for such a project to 25% of the net capital project cost. (Sec. 3006) Requires DOT to collect from, review, and disseminate best practices and other specified information to public transportation agencies for such projects. Authorizes DOT to award pilot program grants to eligible recipients to assist in financing innovative projects for the transportation of seniors and disabled individuals that improve the coordination of transportation services and non-emergency medical transportation services. Sets the federal share of project costs at up to 80%. Directs the DOT Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility to publish a strategic plan that: outlines federal agency role and responsibilities regarding local transportation coordination, including non-emergency medical transportation, for seniors and individuals with disabilities; addresses certain Council recommendations, including a cost-sharing policy for grantees; and examines and proposes changes to federal laws that will eliminate federal barriers to local transportation coordination. (Sec. 3007) Revises requirements for the nonurbanized formula grant program. Requires DOT to apportion specified amounts of rural formula grants each fiscal year for public transportation on Indian reservations. Prescribes requirements for the allocation of such grants to multiple Indian tribes providing public transportation on tribal lands in a single Tribal Statistical Area. (Sec. 3008) Replaces the research, development, demonstration, and deployment grant program with a public transportation innovation grant program. Requires DOT to award grants for projects and activities to advance innovative public transportation research and development. Requires demonstration, deployment, or evaluation projects in public transportation to seek, among other things, the deployment of low or no emission vehicles, zero emission vehicles, or associated advanced technology. Prohibits any DOT grants for the demonstration, deployment, or evaluation of a vehicle that is in revenue service unless the project makes significant technological advancements in the vehicle. Requires DOT to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, at least one institution of higher education to operate a facility to assess components for use in low or no emission vehicles. Establishes a public transportation cooperative research program. Authorizes DOT to make grants to, and cooperative agreements with, the National Academy of Sciences to carry out public transportation research, development, and technology transfer activities. (Sec. 3009) Revamps the technical assistance and standards development grant program as the technical assistance and workforce development grant program. Authorizes DOT to establish a competitive grant program to assist the development of innovative activities that address human resource needs to train and develop the public transportation workforce. Sets the federal share of project costs at 50%. Directs DOT to establish a national transit institute, and award grants to four-year degree-granting institutions of higher education to carry out institute duties, including to develop training and educational programs for federal, state, and local transportation employees, U.S. citizens, and foreign nationals engaged in federally-assisted public transportation work. (Sec. 3011) Prohibits the use of grants or loans for public transportation to pay incremental costs of incorporating art or non-functional landscaping into facilities, including the costs of an artist on the design team. Revises Buy America requirements for public transportation projects. Allows DOT to waive such requirements when procuring rolling stock (including train control, communication, traction power equipment, and rolling stock prototypes) whose cost of components and subcomponents produced in the United States for: FY2016 and FY2017, is more than 60% (as under current law) of the cost of all components of the rolling stock; FY2018 and FY2019, is more than 65% of the cost of all such components; and FY2020 and each fiscal year thereafter, is more than 70% of the cost of all components of such stock. Prescribes requirements for: calculation of the domestic content of certain rolling stock frames or car shells for waiver purposes, and a certification of domestic supply for denied waiver applications. (Sec. 3012) Directs DOT to prescribe regulations for project management oversight that include: a requirement that oversight be limited to quarterly reviews of recipient compliance with the project management plan unless the recipient requires more frequent oversight because of specified failures, and a process for recipients that require more frequent oversight to return to quarterly reviews. (Sec. 3013) Revises requirements for the public transportation safety program. Includes among the contents of the national public transportation safety plan minimum safety standards, meeting specified criteria, for the safe operation of public transportation systems. Directs DOT to administer state safety oversight programs for rail fixed guideway public transportation systems determined inadequate of enforcing federal safety regulations or incapable of preventing substantial risk of death or personal injury until the state develops a program as meeting certain requirements. Authorizes DOT to withhold grants to develop state safety oversight programs from states with programs deemed insufficient, including up to 5% of a state's apportionment of formula public transportation grants for urbanized areas with a population under 200,000. Authorizes DOT also to take certain enforcement action against a recipient that does not comply with federal law regarding the safety of a public transportation system, including withholding up to 25% of a state's apportionment of urbanized area formula public transportation grants. Requires DOT to issue restrictions and prohibitions if an unsafe condition or practice is determined to exist and be a substantial risk of death or personal injury in a public transportation system. (Sec. 3014) Revises formulae for the apportionment of formula public transportation grants to states with urbanized areas with a population of at least 200,000 and urbanized areas with a population under 200,000. Requires a set-aside of $30 million for each fiscal year for passenger ferry grants. (Sec. 3015) Sets the federal share of costs at 80% for state of good repair capital projects for high intensity fixed guideways and for high intensity motorbuses. (Sec. 3016) Reauthorizes through FY2020 the research, development demonstration, and deployment program. Extends: formula grants for public transportation, including allocations for specified projects; technical assistance and standards development and training grants; capital investment grants; and authorization for administrative expenditures. (Sec. 3017) Allocates certain amounts to states and territories for FY2016-FY2020 for formula bus and bus facilities grants. Requires DOT to carry out a state pool pilot grant program for eligible recipients or state or local governmental entities in urbanized areas with a population of between 200,000 and 999,999 to support their transit asset management plans. Revises requirements for competitive grants to eligible recipients for bus and bus facilities capital projects. Authorizes competitive grants for low or no emission bus projects. (Sec. 3018) Limits obligational ceilings for FY2016-FY2020 for: formula grants for public transportation, including allocations for specified projects; and grants for installation of positive train control systems. (Sec. 3019) Authorizes states (lead procurement agencies) and grantees of public transportation assistance may enter into a cooperative procurement contracts with one or more vendors for the purchase of rolling stock (railroad cars) and related equipment. Directs DOT to establish a pilot program for lead nonprofit entities similarly to enter into such contracts for such stock and equipment. Authorizes grantees to enter into capital leases for: the costs of rolling stock or related equipment, and certain zero emission vehicle components. (Sec. 3020) Directs DOT to: begin a review of the efficacy of existing safety standards and protocols used in rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, and evaluate the need to establish additional federal minimum public transportation safety standards after conducting the review. (Sec. 3021) Requires DOT to enter into an agreement with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to evaluate whether it is in the public interest to withhold certain evidentiary public transportation safety program information in federal and state court proceedings. (Sec. 3022) Directs DOT, after publication of a report required by Sec. 3020, to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking on protecting public transportation operators from the risk of assault. (Sec. 3023) Declares that any paratransit systems currently coordinating complementary paratransit service for more than 40 fixed route agencies shall be permitted to continue using an existing tiered, distance-based coordinated paratransit fare system if the fare is not increased by a greater percentage than any increase to the fixed route fare for the largest transit agency in the complementary paratransit service area. (Sec. 3024) Requires DOT to report to Congress on the potential of the Internet of Things to improve transportation services in rural, suburban, and urban areas. (The Internet of Things is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.) (Sec. 3025) Requires DOT to study parking safety at specified alternative transportation facilities and locations. (Sec. 3026) Grants DOT sole authority to appoint Federal Directors to the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Directs parties to the WMATA Compact to amend it to reflect such authority. (Sec. 3027) Directs the GAO to evaluate the impact that MAP-21 changes had on public transportation, including the effectiveness of public transportation agencies to: furnish public transportation to low-income workers in accessing jobs and use reverse commute services; and support services to low-income riders to access jobs, medical services, and other life necessities. (Sec. 3028) Makes $199 million available from the HTF Mass Transit Account for FY2017 for competitive grants for the installation of PTC systems. (Sec. 3030) Amends MAP-21 to repeal: the pilot program for expedited new fixed guideway capital project or a core capacity improvement project delivery, the transit cooperative research program, requirements for public transportation facility projects for bicycles, and human resources and training programs in public transportation. TITLE IV--HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY (Sec. 4001) Reauthorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2016-FY2020 for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety programs, including: the highway safety research and development program, national priority safety programs, the National Driver Register, the High Visibility Enforcement Program, and NHTSA administrative expenses. (Sec. 4002) Revises highway safety program requirements. Requires state highway safety programs to increase driver awareness of commercial motor vehicles to prevent crashes and reduce injuries and fatalities. Requires states with installed automated traffic enforcement systems to expend the apportionment of highway safety program funds to conduct a biennial survey of such systems, and make it available on DOT's website. Directs DOT, in coordination with the Governors Highway Safety Association, to develop procedures to allow states to submit highway safety plans electronically. Reduces from 60 to 45 the number of days during which DOT must review and approve state highway safety plans it has received. Revises teen traffic safety requirements. (Sec. 4003) Revises the highway safety research and development program. Directs NHTSA (which currently is merely authorized) to carry out collaborative research on in-vehicle alcohol detection technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving. Directs DOT to obligate up to a certain amount of funds for the period FY2017-FY2020 to related research. Requires DOT to establish procedures and guidelines to ensure that persons participating in a program or activity that collects data on drug or alcohol use by motor vehicle drivers are informed that the program or activity is voluntary. Sets the federal share of project costs at 100%. (Sec. 4004) Directs DOT to establish a high-visibility enforcement program under which at least three high-visibility traffic safety law enforcement campaigns will be carried out for FY2016-FY2020. Requires each campaign to achieve at least one of the following objectives: reduce alcohol-impaired or drug-impaired driving, and increase the use of seatbelts. (Sec. 4005) Revises national priority safety programs requirements. Specifies allocations of national priority safety program funds for occupant protection, state traffic safety information system improvements, impaired driving countermeasures, distracted driving, motorcyclist safety, state graduated driver licensing laws, and nonmotorized safety. Increases from 75% to 100% the amount of the apportionment of occupant protection grants a state may use for state highway safety programs. Revises requirements for impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants. Requires DOT to award separate grants to each state that: adopts and is enforcing a law that requires all individuals convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or driving while intoxicated to receive a restriction on driving privileges, and provides a 24-7 sobriety program. Prescribes funding requirements. Directs DOT to award distracted driving incentive grants to states that include distracted driving awareness as part of the state's driver's license examination, and enact and enforce a law that: prohibits drivers (including those under age 18) from texting through a personal wireless communications device (including a cell phone, but not a global navigation satellite [GPS] system receiver) while driving (with specified emergency exceptions), makes a violation a primary offense, establishes a minimum fine, and does not provide an exemption that allows a driver to text through a personal wireless communication device while stopped in traffic. Revises motorcyclist safety incentive grant requirements. Requires the allocation of motorcyclist safety grant funds to a state to be in proportion to the state's apportionment of highway safety program funds for FY2009, except that the grant amount may not exceed 25% of the apportionment for FY2009. Directs DOT to update and give states model language to use in traffic safety education courses, driver's manuals, and other driver training materials instructing motor vehicle operators on the importance of sharing the road safely with motorcyclists. Revises minimum requirements for state graduated driver licensing incentive grant programs. Requires DOT to award incentive grants to states with graduated driving licensing laws that require novice drivers under age 18 (currently, under age 21) to comply with a two-stage licensing process before receiving an unrestricted driver's license. Requires such laws, at a minimum, to include a learner's permit stage that: makes a violation of the prohibition against using a personal wireless communications device while driving (with specified emergency exceptions) a primary offense, requires applicants to pass a vision and knowledge assessment before receiving a learner's permit, requires the driver to be accompanied and supervised at all times while operating the motor vehicle by a licensed driver at least age 21 or by a state-certified driving instructor, requires the driver to complete a state-certified driver education or training course or obtain at least 50 hours of behind-the-wheel training (with at least 10 hours at night), with a licensed driver; and remains in effect until the driver attains age 16 and enters the intermediate stage, or attains 18. Requires such laws also to include an intermediate permit stage that: begins immediately after successful completion of a driving skills assessment, makes a violation of the prohibition against using a personal wireless communications device while driving (with specified emergency exceptions) a primary offense, restricts driving at night between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. when not supervised by a licensed driver age 21 or older (with specified exceptions) for the first six months of the intermediate stage, and remains in effect until the driver attains age 17. Directs DOT to award nonmotorized safety grants to states for projects to decrease pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and injuries resulting from crashes with motor vehicles. Sets the federal share of project costs at up to 80%. (Sec. 4006) Directs DOT to develop a process to identify and mitigate possible systemic issues across state and regional offices by reviewing recommendations identified in triennial state management reviews of state highway safety programs. (Sec. 4007) Prohibits DOT from providing grants or funds to any state, county, town, township, Indian tribe, municipality, or other local government for use in any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for a motorcycle driver or passenger. (Sec. 4008) Directs DOT to study marijuana-impaired driving. (Sec. 4009) Directs the NTHSA to identify and carry out additional actions it should undertake to assist state efforts to increase public awareness of the dangers of drug-impaired driving, including the dangers of driving while under the influence of heroin or prescription opioids. (Sec. 4010) Directs DOT to make available to the public on the DOT website information on states awarded national priority safety program grants. (Sec. 4011) Amends SAFETEA-LU regarding grants to states for costs of collecting and evaluating traffic stop data based on race of motor vehicle driver and any passenger. Repeals authority to use grant funds to develop and implement programs to reduce the occurrence of racial profiling, including programs to train law enforcement officers. Directs DOT to set-aside $7.5 million of highway safety research and development funds for each of FY2017-FY2020 to carry out this grant program. Authorizes reallocation of such amounts remaining available before the end of the fiscal year to increase the amounts made available to carry out other highway safety research and development activities. (Sec. 4012) Directs DOT to report to Congress on NTHSA progress toward reviewing and implementing recommendations made in a GAO report on the National Roadside Survey of alcohol and drug use by drivers. (Sec. 4013) Directs NHTSA to report on any barriers to collecting data on the prevalence of the use of wireless communications devices while driving. TITLE V--MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY Subtitle A--Motor Carrier Safety Grant Consolidation (Sec. 5101) Revises requirements for the motor carrier safety assistance grant program. Directs DOT to publish approved state multiple-year motor carrier safety improvement plans, and annual updates, on the DOT public website. Authorizes DOT, in lieu of withdrawing approval of noncompliant state plans, to withhold from such states, for the fiscal year, graduated percentages of grant program funds. Directs DOT to administer a financial assistance program for discretionary grants to and cooperative agreements with states, local governments, federally-recognized Indian tribes, and other persons to carry out high priority motor carrier safety activities and projects. Requires DOT to establish a program of discretionary grants to states for the innovative technology deployment of commercial motor vehicle information systems and networks. Revises requirements for reimbursement of a state, from a related grant, for 80% of the costs of developing and implementing programs to improve commercial motor vehicle safety and enforce commercial motor vehicle regulations, standards, or orders. Replaces this program with commercial motor vehicle operators grants to programs to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2017-FY2020 for FMCSA Financial Assistance Programs, including: the motor carrier safety assistance grant program, the high priority activities program, the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program, and the commercial driver's license program implementation grant program (established in this title). Repeals specified commercial motor vehicle safety programs. (Sec. 5102) Renames the performance and registration information program as the performance and registration information systems management program. (Sec. 5103) Reauthorizes appropriations from HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2016-FY2020 for FMCSA administrative expenses. Authorizes DOT to conduct an outreach and education program administered by the FMCSA. (Sec. 5104) Revises the program of financial assistance grants to states to implement the commercial driver's license program. Repeals the authorization for grants in a fiscal year to state agencies, local governments, or persons to cover 100% of the costs of priority research, development or testing, demonstration projects, public education, or other special activities relating to commercial driver's licensing and motor vehicle safety. (Sec. 5105) Reauthorizes appropriations from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2016 for the motor carrier safety assistance grant program. Amends SAFETEA-LU to reauthorize through FY2016 appropriations from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FMCSA programs, including: the commercial driver's license program improvement grants program, border enforcement grants, the performance and registration information systems management grant program, the commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment program (also known as the innovative technology deployment program), and safety data improvement grants. Extends through FY2016 the set-aside of certain funds for: high priority activities and projects to improve commercial motor vehicle safety and compliance with federal commercial motor vehicle safety regulations; and new entrant motor carrier audit grants. Reauthorizes through FY2016 appropriations from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program. (Sec. 5106) Directs DOT to establish a motor carrier safety assistance program formula working group to analyze requirements and factors for a new motor carrier safety assistance program allocation formula based on specified factors. Prescribes requirements for program funding before development of a new allocation formula. (Sec. 5107) Directs DOT, if a new allocation formula has not been established for the pertinent fiscal year, to calculate for FY2017 and ensuing fiscal years the maintenance of effort baseline for funding the lead state agency responsible for administering the motor carrier safety assistance plan. Allows DOT, at state request, beginning when a new allocation formula for the program is established, to waive or modify the baseline maintenance of effort required of the state if a waiver or modification: is equitable due to reasonable circumstances, will ensure the continuation of commercial motor vehicle enforcement activities in the state, and is necessary to ensure that the total amount of state maintenance of effort and matching expenditures required does not exceed a specified sum. Subtitle B--Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Reform Part I--Regulatory Reform (Sec. 5201) Revises requirements for a notice to DOT of cancellation of liability insurance for motor carriers, brokers, or freight forwarders. Grants DOT authority to suspend, as an alternative to revoking, the registration of the motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder because of the lapse and subsequent cancellation of liability insurance. (Sec. 5202) Prescribes requirements for public participation, particularly participation by segments of the motor carrier industry, in FMCSA rulemaking as well as for an impact analysis of every proposed or final rule. (Sec. 5303) Requires each FMCSA guidance document to: contain certain information, including point of contact information; and be published on the DOT website. Directs the FMCSA, at least once every five years, to review its guidance documents to determine whether they are consistent and clear, uniformly and consistently enforced, and still necessary. Defines "guidance document" to mean a FMCSA document that: presents an interpretation of a FMCSA regulation, or includes a FMCSA enforcement policy. (Sec. 5204) Directs the FMCSA to publish on the DOT website a summary of all submitted petitions for regulatory action, and respond to petitions within 180 days of publication. (Sec. 5205) Directs the FMCSA to revise federal safety fitness regulations for motor carriers to incorporate by reference the certification standards for roadside inspectors issued by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. (Sec. 5206) Authorizes DOT to grant an exemption from commercial motor vehicle safety regulations for up to five years, with renewals for an additional five years. Authorizes DOT also to make permanent certain exemptions for: perishable construction products, transport of commercial bee hives, and safe transport of livestock. Part II--Compliance, Safety, Accountability Reform (Sec. 5221) Directs the FMCSA to commission the National Research Council of the National Academies to study the the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program and the Safety Measurement System (SMS). Requires the Council, in conducting this study, to analyze: the accuracy with which the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASIC) identify high risk carriers and predict future crash risk or other safety indicators for motor carriers and the highest risk carriers; and existing data collection gaps or data sufficiency problems and their impact on the efficacy of the CSA program. Directs the FMCSA, after submission of a report identifying any deficiency or opportunity for improvement in the CSA program or SMS, to submit a corrective action plan to Congress that identifies how the FMCSA will address those deficiencies or opportunities. (Sec. 5222) Directs the FMCSA to develop a process for identifying and reviewing advanced safety equipment, enhanced driver fitness measures, fleet safety management tools, technologies, and programs, and other standards for use by motor carriers to receive recognition, credit, or an improved SMS percentile. (Sec. 5223) Declares that no information regarding analysis of violations, not-at-fault commercial motor vehicle crashes, alerts, or the relative percentile for each BASIC developed through the CSA program may be made available to the general public until the DOT Inspector General certifies that, among other things, any deficiencies identified in the report containing the results of the correlation study required by this subtitle have been addressed and the corrective action plan has been implemented. (Sec. 5224) Directs the FMCSA to develop functional specifications to ensure the consistent and accurate input of data into systems and databases relating to the CSA program. (Sec. 5225) Directs the FMCSA, not later than one year after making the certification required under this subtitle, to task the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee with reviewing the treatment of preventable crashes under the SMS. Requires the Committee to make recommendations to DOT on a process to allow motor carriers and drivers to request the FMCSA to make a determination regarding the preventability of a crash. Subtitle C--Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety (Sec. 5301) Directs DOT to revise certain federal regulations prohibiting obstructions to a driver's field of view to exempt from those prohibitions the voluntary mounting on a windshield of vehicle safety technology likely to achieve a level of safety equivalent to or greater than what would be achieved without the exemption. (Sec. 5302) Directs the FMCSA to prioritize the completion of each outstanding statutory rulemaking before beginning any other rulemaking unless there is a significant need for the other rulemaking and Congress is notified. (Sec. 5303) Directs GAO to report to Congress on the cost and feasibility of establishing a self-reporting system for commercial motor vehicle drivers or motor carriers regarding en route equipment failures. (Sec. 5304) Directs DOT to assess the effectiveness of the new operator safety review program and publish the results, including any recommendations, on DOT's website. (Sec. 5305) Requires DOT to ensure that a review is completed on each motor carrier that demonstrates through performance data for four consecutive months that it poses the highest safety risk. (Sec. 5306) Directs DOT to convene a working group of state representatives or state law enforcement officials, as well as representatives of industry, labor, safety advocates, and other interested individuals, to review the data elements of post-accident reports for tow-away accidents involving commercial motor vehicles that are reported to the federal government. (Sec. 5307) Directs DOT to report to Congress regarding each commercial motor vehicle safety rulemaking: with a statutory deadline, an explanation of why the deadline was not met as well as the expected date of completion, and without a statutory deadline, an expected date of completion. Subtitle D--Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers (Sec. 5401) Directs DOT to modify federal minimum standards for safety fitness of commercial motor vehicle operators to: exempt former armed forces or reserve members over age 21 from part or all of a driving test if they had prior armed forces or reserve experience driving vehicles similar to a commercial motor vehicle, allow members to apply for an exemption during the one-year period after the member separated from service, and credit the training and knowledge received by members driving vehicles similar to commercial vehicles during their service for purposes of satisfying minimum standards for training and knowledge for the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. (Sec. 5402) Revises the requirement that motor carriers conduct preemployment, reasonable suspicion, random, and post-accident testing of commercial motor vehicle operators for controlled substances or alcohol. Allows motor carriers to use hair testing as an acceptable alternative to mandatory urinalysis for detecting use of controlled substances by an operator, but only for preemployment testing and random testing (and the latter only if the motor carrier tested the operator at preemployment using the same method). Requires DOT to permit an exemption from hair testing for operators with established religious beliefs that prohibit the cutting or removal of hair. Requires DOT to develop requirements for laboratories and testing procedures for controlled substances that include mandatory guidelines that establish, among other things, laboratory protocols and cut-off levels for hair testing to detect the use of such a substance. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to issue scientific and technical guidelines for hair testing as a method for detecting the use of controlled substances. (Sec. 5403) Authorizes a qualified Department of Veterans Affairs physician to perform a medical examination and provide a medical certificate to comply with medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of operators of commercial motor vehicles. Directs DOT to develop a process for including qualified physicians on the National Registry of Medical Examiners. (Sec. 5404) Directs DOT to establish a commercial driver pilot program to study the feasibility, benefits, and safety impacts of allowing a covered driver to operate a commercial motor vehicles. Defines "covered driver" to mean an individual: between 18 and 21, who is a member of the armed forces or reserves, and qualified in a Military Occupational Specialty to operate a commercial motor vehicle or similar vehicle. Directs DOT to collect and analyze data relating to accidents involving drivers participating in the pilot program. Prohibits drivers from: transporting passengers or hazardous cargo, or operating a vehicle in special configuration. Directs DOT to establish a working group to evaluate the pilot program. Subtitle E--General Provisions (Sec. 5501) Directs the DOT Inspector General to report to Congress on the average length of time that commercial motor vehicle operators are delayed before the loading and unloading of vehicles and at other points in the pick-up and delivery process. (Sec. 5502) Directs the DOT to establish a working group to determine best practices for expeditious state approval of special permits for emergency response and recovery vehicles that exceed federal and state truck length or width limits to operate safely on designated emergency routes. (Sec. 5503) Directs DOT to establish a working group to develop recommendations on how best to convey to consumers information on federal laws about the interstate transportation of household goods by motor carrier. (Sec. 5504) Directs GAO to conduct an analysis of FMCSA's information technology and data collection and management systems. (Sec. 5505) Directs DOT to report to Congress on DOT actions to process motor carrier registration applications within 30 days after receipt. (Sec. 5506) Directs the FMCSA to report to Congress on skills testing delays for commercial driver's license applicants. (Sec. 5507) Revises electronic logging device requirements. Permits a motor carrier to require its drivers to comply with federal hours of service requirements by using either a paper record of duty status form or an electronic logging device when transporting a motor home or recreation vehicle trailer in a driveaway-towaway operation (in which an empty or unladen motor vehicle with one or more sets of wheels is being transported between specified business facilities). (Sec. 5509) Directs DOT to take certain actions before initiating a rulemaking to change the minimum levels of financial responsibility for motor carriers of property and motor carriers of passengers. (Sec. 5510) Directs DOT to study the safety operations, fire suppression capability, tire loads, and pavement impacts of operating a double-decker motorcoach with rear-attached passenger luggage rack. (Sec. 5511) Directs GAO to submit to Congress a review of school bus safety. (Sec. 5512) Authorizes the FMCSA to request the chief driver licensing official of a state to provide driver record information on an individual from the National Driver Register in connection with an FMCSA safety investigation. (Sec. 5513) Directs DOT to report to Congress regarding the design, development, testing, and implementation of wireless roadside inspection systems. (Sec. 5514) Waives federal preemption to allow states to regulate tow truck operations performed without the prior consent or authorization of the owner or operator of the towed motor vehicle. (Currently, states are allowed to regulate only the price of for-hire motor vehicle transportation by a tow truck if the transportation is performed without the prior consent or authorization of the owner or operator of the motor vehicle.) (Sec. 5515) Directs the FMCSA to study the safety effects of motor carrier operator commutes exceeding 150 minutes. (Sec. 5516) Requires South Dakota to be given the opportunity to update designated routes on the federal-aid primary system highways, as long as the update shifts routes to divided highways or does not increase centerline miles more than 5%, and is expected to increase safety performance. (Sec. 5517) Directs DOT to publish on its website a report on federal minimum financial responsibility requirements for motor carriers transporting property. (Sec. 5518) Revises requirements exempting certain farm vehicles from federal commercial motor vehicle safety requirements. (Sec. 5519) Declares that the maximum hours of service for a commercial motor vehicle driver of an internal rail flaw detection vehicle equipped with flange hi-rails (hi-rail vehicle) shall not include time in transportation to or from a duty assignment provided it: does not exceed 2 hours per day or a total of 30 hours per month, and is fully accounted for in the motor carrier records and are made available upon request of the FMCSA or the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). (Sec. 5520) Revises federal vehicle length limitations for trucks. Declares that an automobile transporter shall not be prohibited from transporting cargo or general freight on a backhaul (the return trip of a vehicle transporting cargo or general freight, especially when carrying goods back over all or part of the same route), so long as it complies with federal weight limitations for truck tractors and semitrailer combinations operating on any segment of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and qualifying federal-aid primary system highways. Prohibits states from prescribing or enforcing a regulation that imposes a vehicle length limitation of less than 80 feet on a stinger-steered automobile transporter with a front overhang of less than 4 feet and a rear overhang of less than 6 feet. (Sec. 5521) Declares that certain commercial motor vehicle safety reporting and recordkeeping requirements shall not apply to drivers of ready mixed concrete delivery vehicles provided certain requirements are met. (Sec. 5522) Amends the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to exempt from federal maximum driving and on-duty time requirements drivers of trucks transporting construction materials and equipment to or from an active construction site within a 75 (currently, 50) air mile radius of the driver's normal work reporting location. Authorizes a state, upon notice to DOT, to establish a different air mile radius limitation if the limitation is between 50 and 75 air miles and driver movements are taken place entirely within the state. (Sec. 5523) Revises federal vehicle length limitations to prohibit states from prescribing or enforcing a regulation that imposes an overall length limitation of less than 82 feet on a towaway trailer transporter combination operating on any segment of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and qualifying federal-aid primary system highways. Defines "trailer transporter towing unit" as a power unit not used to carry property when operating in a towaway trailer transporter combination. Defines "towaway trailer transporter combination" as a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer transporter towing unit and two trailers or semitrailers: with a total weight not exceeding 26,000 pounds; and which carry no property and constitute inventory property of a manufacturer, distributor or dealer of such trailers or semitrailers. (Sec. 5524) Prescribes requirements to exempt certain welding trucks used in the pipeline industry from specified federal commercial motor vehicle requirements for motor carrier registration, driver qualifications, commercial motor carrier safety, maintenance and repair, and maximum driving hours and on duty time. (Sec. 5525) Directs DOT to report to Congress on the safety and enforcement impacts of specified sections of this Act. TITLE VI--INNOVATION Transportation for Tomorrow Act of 2015 (Sec. 6002) Authorizes appropriations out of the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2016-FY2020 for: the highway research and development program, the technology and innovation deployment program, training and education, the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) program, the university transportation centers program, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), and FHWA administration. (Sec. 6003) Directs DOT to obligate specified funds for FY2016-FY2020 for the accelerated implementation and deployment of pavement technologies program. Directs DOT to report annually on the cost and benefits from deployment of new technology and innovations that result from the program. (Sec. 6004) Directs DOT to establish an advanced transportation and congestion management technologies deployment initiative to award grants to a state or local government, transit agency, metropolitan planning organization representing a population over 200,000, or other state or local government subdivisions or a multijurisdictional group or consortia of research institutional or academic institutions. (Sec. 6005) Revises certain ITS purposes, goals, and reporting requirements. (Sec. 6010) Prescribes requirements for development of ITS infrastructure. (Sec. 6011) Establishes the position of Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Research and Technology. (Sec. 6012) Repeals the authorization and mandate for a Research and Innovative Technology Administration. (Sec. 6013) Directs DOT to maintain an online course curriculum to train public sector emergency response and preparedness teams in hazardous material (hazmat) transportation. (Sec. 6014) Authorizes DOT, as part of the hazardous material technical assessment, research and development, and analysis program, to carry out cooperative research on hazmat transport. (Sec. 6015) Eliminates the Office of Intermodalism of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology of DOT]. (Sec. 6016) Revises requirements for the university transportation centers program. (Sec. 6017) Declares that the BTS shall not be required to obtain the approval of any other officer or employee of: DOT with respect to the collection or analysis of any information, or the U.S. government, before publication, with respect to the substance of any statistical technical reports or press releases lawfully prepared by the BTS. Grants the BTS a significant role in the disposition and allocation of its authorized budget, including: all hiring, grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts awarded by the BTS; and the disposition and allocation of amounts paid to the BTS for cost-reimbursable projects. (Sec. 6018) Directs the BTS to establish a port performance statistics program to provide nationally consistent measures of performance of at least the nation's top 25 ports by tonnage, its top 25 ports by 20-foot equivalent unit, and its top 25 ports by dry bulk. Directs the BTS to collect monthly port performance measures for each specified U.S. port that receives federal assistance or is subject to federal regulation to report annually to the BTS on statistics on capacity and throughput. (Sec. 6019) Requires the head of each DOT modal administration and joint program office to submit an annual modal research plan for approval to the DOT Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (Assistant Secretary). Prohibits DOT from expending funds on research determined by the Assistant Secretary to be duplicative unless: the research is required by an Act of Congress, it was part of a contract funded before enactment of this Act, it updates previously commissioned research, or the Assistant Secretary certifies to Congress that it is necessary. Directs DOT shall publish annually, on a public website, a comprehensive database of all DOT research projects, including research funded through University Transportation Centers. Requires DOT to develop a five-year transportation research and development (R&D) strategic plan. (Sec. 6020) Directs DOT to establish a program to award grants to states to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the HTF. (Sec. 6021) Directs DOT to enter into an agreement with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies to study actions needed to upgrade and restore the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways to its role as a premier system network that meets the growing and shifting demands of the 21st century. (Sec. 6022) Authorizes DOT to study the impact of pavement durability and sustainability on vehicle fuel consumption, vehicle wear and tear, road conditions, and road repairs. (Sec. 6023) Authorizes DOT to convene a transportation technology policy interagency working group. (Sec. 6024) Authorizes DOT to solicit the support of other federal research agencies and national laboratories to assist in the pursuit and resolution of identified research challenges. (Sec. 6025) Directs GAO to assess the status of autonomous transportation technology policy developed by U.S. public entities. (Sec. 6026) Authorizes DOT to conduct research on the reduction of traffic congestion. (Sec. 6027) Authorizes DOT to study digital technologies and information technologies, including shared mobility, data, transportation network companies, and on-demand transportation services to develop best practices for use of such information and technology in the planning of smart cities. (Sec. 6028) Directs the FHWA to develop data sets and analysis tools to assist MPOs, states, and the FHWA in carrying out performance management analyses of federal-aid highways. TITLE VII--HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2015 Subtitle A--Authorizations (Sec. 7101) Reauthorizes DOT hazmat transportation safety projects for FY2016-FY2020. Authorizes DOT to make certain expenditures, including an amount for hazmat training grants, from the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Fund. Directs DOT to withhold a specified amount of funds for each fiscal year for competitive community safety grants. Subtitle B--Hazardous Material Safety and Improvement (Sec. 7201) Revises requirements for safe hazmat transportation. Authorizes DOT to waive compliance with federal hazmat transportation safety standards, without prior notice and comment, if DOT determines that: it is in the public interest and not inconsistent with the safety of transporting hazmat, and is necessary for the safe movement of hazmat into, from, and within an area declared a major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. (Sec. 7202) Prohibits DOT from denying a non-temporary safety permit to a motor carrier transporting hazmat based on a comprehensive review of the carrier triggered by safety management system scores or out-of-service disqualification standards, unless: the carrier has the opportunity, before the denial, to submit a corrective action plan; and the plan is insufficient to address safety concerns in the course of the review. (Sec. 7203) Revises requirements for DOT planning and training grants to states and Indian tribes to: carry out hazmat emergency plans, and train public sector employees to respond to hazmat accidents and incidents. (Sec. 7204) Requires DOT to: publish, and make public on DOT's website, notice of the filing of an application for a new special permit (under current law, application for a special permit) or a modification to an existing special permit authorizing a variance from federal regulations for the transportation of hazmat, and give the public an opportunity to inspect the safety analysis and comment on the application for 15 days. Decreases from 180 days to 120 days (after the first day of the month following the filing of an application) the deadline by which DOT must issue, renew, or deny a special permit. Directs DOT periodically, but at least every 120 days, to: publish notice of the final disposition of each application for a new special permit, modification to an existing special permit, or approval during the preceding quarter; and make publicly available on the DOT website notice of the final disposition of any other special permit during the preceding quarter. (Sec. 7205) Directs DOT to make available biennially on the DOT website (instead of to specified congressional committees) a comprehensive report on hazmat transportation for the preceding two calendar years. (Sec. 7206) Directs DOT to withdraw a certain proposed rule described in the notice of proposed rulemaking issued on January 27, 2011, entitled "Safety Requirements for External Product Piping (wetlines) on Cargo Tanks Transporting Flammable Liquids." Declares that nothing in this requirement shall prohibit DOT from issuing standards or regulations regarding the safety of wetlines on cargo tanks transporting flammable liquids after the withdrawal is carried out. (Sec. 7207) Directs GAO to study the standards, metrics, and protocols that DOT uses to regulate the performance of persons ("third-party labs") approved to recommend hazard classifications for the transportation of new explosives. (Sec. 7208) Directs DOT to allow states, at their discretion, to waive the requirement for a holder of a Class A commercial driver's license to obtain a hazmat endorsement, as long as certain requirements are met. Subtitle C--Safe Transportation of Flammable Liquids by Rail (Sec. 7301) Directs DOT to establish a competitive program for the award of community safety grants to nonprofit organizations for: national outreach and training programs to assist communities in preparing for and responding to accidents and incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials, including Class 3 flammable liquids by rail; and training state and local personnel responsible for enforcing the safe transportation of hazmat, including Class 3 flammable liquids by rail. (Sec. 7302) Directs DOT to issue regulations requiring Class I railroads transporting hazmat to: generate accurate, real-time, and electronic train consist information, including emergency response information; grant each applicable fusion center secure access to such information; require each such fusion center to supply that information to state and local first responders, emergency response officials, and law enforcement personnel involved in the response to or investigation of an accident, incident, or public health or safety emergency involving the rail transportation; require each Class I railroad to give advanced notification and information on high-hazard flammable trains to each state emergency response commission; and prescribe requirements for further transmission of such information to specified first responders, officials, and personnel. (Sec. 7303) Directs GAO to study whether weaknesses exist in the emergency response information carried by train crews transporting hazmat. (Sec. 7304) Requires the phase-out by specified deadlines of all DOT-111 specification (non-pressurized) railroad tank cars transporting Class 3 flammable liquids not retrofitted to meet DOT-117, DOT-117P, or DOT-117R design specifications established by the May 2015 final rule for the safe transportation of flammable liquids by rail. (Sec. 7305) Directs DOT to issue regulations to require each tank car built to meet the DOT-117 specification and each non-jacketed tank car modified to meet the DOT-117R specification to be equipped with an insulating blanket with at least one-half inch thick DOT-approved material. (Sec. 7306) Requires top fittings for ... [summary shortened here: the full Congressional Research Service summary is 188,290 characters; read it at congress.gov]

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Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] · 118 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 22, Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 (2015-01-06); CBO cost estimate: H.R. 22, Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 (2015-02-03); CBO cost estimate: H.R. 22, DRIVE Act (2015-07-24); CBO cost estimate: H.R. 22, the FAST Act (2015-12-02)

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Bill Huizenga (R-MI), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), David Rouzer (R-NC), Tim Walberg (R-MI), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Richard Hudson (R-NC), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Roger Williams (R-TX), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Steve Womack (R-AR), Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Brian Babin (R-TX), J. French Hill (R-AR) and 58 more.

Recorded votes

• House roll call 7 (2015): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, HR22 (2015-01-06): Passed
• Senate vote 250 (2015): On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed, HR22 (2015-07-21): Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
• Senate vote 251 (2015): On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed, HR22 (2015-07-22): Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to
• Senate vote 252 (2015): On the Motion to Proceed, HR22 (2015-07-24): Motion to Proceed Agreed to
• Senate vote 253 (2015): On the Cloture Motion, HR22 (2015-07-26): Cloture Motion Rejected
• Senate vote 254 (2015): On the Cloture Motion, HR22 (2015-07-26): Cloture Motion Agreed to
• Senate vote 255 (2015): On the Motion for Attendance, HR22 (2015-07-27): Motion for Attendance Agreed to
• Senate vote 256 (2015): On the Amendment, HR22 (2015-07-27): Amendment Agreed to
• Senate vote 257 (2015): On the Cloture Motion, HR22 (2015-07-27): Cloture Motion Agreed to
• Senate vote 258 (2015): On the Amendment, HR22 (2015-07-29): Amendment Agreed to
• Senate vote 259 (2015): On the Cloture Motion, HR22 (2015-07-29): Cloture Motion Agreed to
• Senate vote 260 (2015): On Passage of the Bill, HR22 (2015-07-30): Bill Passed
• House roll call 586 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 587 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 588 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 589 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Agreed to
• House roll call 590 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 591 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 592 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 593 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-03): Failed
• House roll call 594 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 595 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 596 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 599 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 600 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 601 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Agreed to
• House roll call 602 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 603 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 604 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 605 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 606 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 607 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 608 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 609 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 610 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 611 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 612 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 613 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 614 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 615 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 616 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Failed
• House roll call 617 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-04): Agreed to
• House roll call 619 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-05): Failed
• House roll call 620 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-05): Agreed to
• House roll call 621 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-05): Agreed to
• House roll call 622 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR22 (2015-11-05): Agreed to
• House roll call 623 (2015): On Agreeing to the Amendments En gros, HR22 (2015-11-05): Passed
• House roll call 624 (2015): On Motion to go to Conference, HR22 (2015-11-05): Passed
• House roll call 625 (2015): On Motion to Instruct Conferees, HR22 (2015-11-05): Failed
• Senate vote 303 (2015): On the Cloture Motion, HR22 (2015-11-10): Cloture Motion Agreed to
• Senate vote 304 (2015): On the Motion, HR22 (2015-11-10): Motion Agreed to
• House roll call 673 (2015): On Agreeing to the Conference Report, HR22 (2015-12-03): Passed
• Senate vote 330 (2015): On the Motion, HR22 (2015-12-03): Motion Agreed to
• Senate vote 331 (2015): On the Conference Report, HR22 (2015-12-03): Conference Report Agreed to

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• Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)
• Congress.gov
• Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr22.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>

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