Passenger Rail Liability Adjustment Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5697 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5697

To adjust the effective date of any adjustment based on Consumer Price 
Index to rail passenger liability cap that occurs during calendar year 
                                 2026.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 6, 2025

  Mr. Nehls (for himself, Mr. Moulton, and Ms. Titus) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To adjust the effective date of any adjustment based on Consumer Price 
Index to rail passenger liability cap that occurs during calendar year 
                                 2026.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Passenger Rail Liability Adjustment 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE FOR RAIL PASSENGER LIABILITY CAP ADJUSTMENT.

    The effective date for any adjustment to the liability cap under 
section 28103(a)(2) of title 49, United States Code, as described in 
section 11415(b) of the FAST Act (49 U.S.C. 28103 note), that occurs 
during calendar year 2026, shall be 90 days after the notice required 
under such section 11415(b).
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