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Requiring the installation and maintenance of train defect detectors on railway branch lines, and providing penalties
Sponsored by the Senate Transportation Committee
Topics:Transportation
Same legislation: SF 337
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 22, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 2, 2023
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Railroad companies must install and maintain special equipment called defect detectors along their branch lines. If a line is long, they have to place these detectors at specific intervals to meet the requirement. Companies that do not follow these rules will have to pay fines for every mile that lacks a detector.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires a railroad company to install and maintain at least one defect detector, as defined in the bill, on or along every railway branch line upon which the company’s trains operate. If the branch line is longer than miles, one defect detector is required at least every miles. Railroad companies that operate trains on the same railway may share such costs and are jointly and severally liable in any suit arising from the installation and maintenance of all defect detectors, or lack thereof, on or along the railway branch line. 5 for every mile of the branch line, or every mile that is more than miles away from a defect detector, as applicable. A schedule “five” penalty is a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 for a first violation, and not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000 for a subsequent violation.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 10, 2024. On January 25, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
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