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Committee moves rail-enhancement placeholder forward to rules; members describe three subprograms
Summary
Lawmakers advanced a bill to create a rail-enhancement placeholder in the budget—containing large rail capital projects, a Rail Preservation Fund for short-line maintenance, and a Rail Industrial Access Fund—and sent it to rules by voice vote; the measure does not itself appropriate funds and would be subject to future appropriations.
Unidentified Speaker 2 summarized a bill the committee reviewed previously (formerly SB 89) that would create a rail-enhancement placeholder in the budget to identify and track potential state investment in freight rail. The chair said the vehicle would have three components: funding for large rail improvement capital…
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