HR 510 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

BRACE Act of 2019

Introduced Jan 11, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Earl Blumenauer D-OR

Latest action · Jan 11, 2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 11, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy Act of 2019 or the BRACE Act of 2019

This bill permanently extends the tax credit for railroad track maintenance. The extension applies to expenditures paid or incurred during tax years beginning after 2017. Assignments of miles of railroad track, including related expenditures, for tax years ending after 2017 must be treated as timely if they are made pursuant to a written agreement entered into within 90 days of the enactment of this bill.

Cosponsors 302

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 11, 2019 to Jun 11, 2020; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-PA	Mike Kelly	Original	Jan 11, 2019
R-OH	Bill Johnson		Jan 22, 2019
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jan 22, 2019
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jan 22, 2019
R-NC	David Rouzer		Jan 22, 2019
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jan 22, 2019
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jan 22, 2019
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Jan 22, 2019
R-KS	Steve Watkins		Jan 22, 2019
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jan 23, 2019
R-AR	Bruce Westerman		Jan 23, 2019
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann		Jan 23, 2019
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jan 23, 2019
R-TN	David P. Roe		Jan 23, 2019
R-AK	Don Young		Jan 23, 2019
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jan 23, 2019
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jan 23, 2019
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Jan 23, 2019
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jan 23, 2019
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jan 23, 2019
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jan 23, 2019
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jan 23, 2019
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jan 23, 2019
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		Jan 23, 2019
I-MI	Paul Mitchell		Jan 23, 2019
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jan 23, 2019
R-KS	Ron Estes		Jan 23, 2019
R-MO	Sam Graves		Jan 23, 2019
R-AR	Steve Womack		Jan 23, 2019
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jan 24, 2019
R-KY	Andy Barr		Jan 24, 2019
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Jan 24, 2019
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jan 24, 2019
R-NY	Chris Collins		Jan 24, 2019
R-MI	Jack Bergman		Jan 24, 2019
R-KY	James Comer		Jan 24, 2019
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Jan 24, 2019
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Jan 24, 2019
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jan 24, 2019
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jan 24, 2019
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Jan 24, 2019
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jan 24, 2019
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jan 25, 2019
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jan 28, 2019
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Jan 28, 2019
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Jan 28, 2019
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jan 28, 2019
R-MO	Jason Smith		Jan 28, 2019
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jan 28, 2019
R-KS	Roger Marshall		Jan 28, 2019
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jan 30, 2019
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Jan 30, 2019
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Jan 30, 2019
R-IL	Darin LaHood		Jan 30, 2019
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jan 30, 2019
D-WA	Denny Heck		Jan 30, 2019
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jan 30, 2019
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Jan 30, 2019
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Jan 30, 2019
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Jan 30, 2019
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Jan 30, 2019
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn		Jan 30, 2019
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jan 30, 2019
R-LA	Ralph Lee Abraham		Jan 30, 2019
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jan 30, 2019
R-TN	Scott DesJarlais		Jan 30, 2019
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Feb 4, 2019
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		Feb 4, 2019
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Feb 4, 2019
D-CA	Katie Hill		Feb 4, 2019
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Feb 4, 2019
R-PA	Scott Perry		Feb 4, 2019
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Feb 5, 2019
R-TX	Bill Flores		Feb 5, 2019
R-MO	Billy Long		Feb 5, 2019
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Feb 5, 2019
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler		Feb 5, 2019
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Feb 5, 2019
R-GA	Jody B. Hice		Feb 5, 2019
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Feb 5, 2019
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Feb 5, 2019
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Feb 5, 2019
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Feb 5, 2019
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Feb 5, 2019
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Feb 5, 2019
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Feb 5, 2019
D-WA	Adam Smith		Feb 6, 2019
D-NY	Anthony Brindisi		Feb 6, 2019
D-NC	David E. Price		Feb 6, 2019
R-SD	Dusty Johnson		Feb 6, 2019
R-MT	Greg Gianforte		Feb 6, 2019
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Feb 6, 2019
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Feb 6, 2019
R-NY	Tom Reed		Feb 6, 2019
R-TX	Will Hurd		Feb 6, 2019
R-MD	Andy Harris		Feb 11, 2019
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Feb 11, 2019
R-TX	Brian Babin		Feb 11, 2019
R-CO	Doug Lamborn		Feb 11, 2019
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Feb 11, 2019
R-TX	John R. Carter		Feb 11, 2019
R-TX	Kay Granger		Feb 11, 2019
R-TX	Roger Williams		Feb 11, 2019
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Feb 11, 2019
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Feb 11, 2019
R-GA	Tom Graves		Feb 11, 2019
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Feb 12, 2019
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Feb 12, 2019
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Feb 13, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Feb 13, 2019
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Feb 13, 2019
R-MI	Fred Upton		Feb 13, 2019
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Feb 13, 2019
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Feb 13, 2019
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		Feb 13, 2019
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Feb 14, 2019
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		Feb 25, 2019
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Feb 26, 2019
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Feb 26, 2019
R-FL	Ross Spano		Feb 26, 2019
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Feb 26, 2019
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Feb 27, 2019
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Feb 27, 2019
D-WI	Ron Kind		Feb 27, 2019
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Mar 4, 2019
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Mar 4, 2019
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Mar 4, 2019
D-PA	Susan Wild		Mar 4, 2019
R-MI	Bill Huizenga		Mar 5, 2019
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Mar 5, 2019
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Mar 5, 2019
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Mar 5, 2019
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Mar 8, 2019
R-TX	Lance Gooden		Mar 8, 2019
R-OR	Greg Walden		Mar 11, 2019
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Mar 11, 2019
D-NM	Xochitl Torres Small		Mar 11, 2019
D-MN	Angie Craig		Mar 18, 2019
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Mar 18, 2019
D-CA	Jim Costa		Mar 18, 2019
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney		Mar 21, 2019
R-MN	Pete Stauber		Mar 21, 2019
R-OH	Troy Balderson		Mar 21, 2019
R-SC	Jeff Duncan		Mar 25, 2019
R-IL	John Shimkus		Mar 25, 2019
R-TX	Randy K. Weber, Sr.		Mar 25, 2019
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Mar 27, 2019
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Mar 28, 2019
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Mar 28, 2019
R-OK	Kevin Hern		Mar 28, 2019
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Mar 28, 2019
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		Mar 29, 2019
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 29, 2019
D-CT	John B. Larson		Mar 29, 2019
R-ND	Kelly Armstrong		Mar 29, 2019
R-CA	Paul Cook		Apr 3, 2019
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Apr 8, 2019
R-MN	Jim Hagedorn		Apr 8, 2019
D-CA	Josh Harder		Apr 8, 2019
R-IL	Mike Bost		Apr 8, 2019
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Apr 8, 2019
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Apr 10, 2019
D-IA	Abby Finkenauer		Apr 12, 2019
R-IN	Greg Pence		Apr 12, 2019
R-TN	Tim Burchett		Apr 12, 2019
R-NY	John Katko		Apr 15, 2019
D-MA	Lori Trahan		Apr 22, 2019
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Apr 25, 2019
D-MD	David J. Trone		Apr 29, 2019
D-CA	Tj Cox		Apr 29, 2019
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Apr 30, 2019
R-TX	Jodey C. Arrington		Apr 30, 2019
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		May 1, 2019
D-IN	André Carson		May 2, 2019
R-VA	Denver Riggleman		May 2, 2019
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		May 3, 2019
D-CT	James A. Himes		May 3, 2019
R-MO	Ann Wagner		May 7, 2019
D-MN	Dean Phillips		May 7, 2019
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		May 7, 2019
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		May 7, 2019
R-FL	Michael Waltz		May 7, 2019
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		May 9, 2019
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		May 9, 2019
D-FL	Charlie Crist		May 9, 2019
R-NE	Don Bacon		May 9, 2019
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		May 9, 2019
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		May 9, 2019
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		May 9, 2019
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 9, 2019
R-GA	Rick W. Allen		May 9, 2019
D-TN	Steve Cohen		May 9, 2019
D-MN	Ilhan Omar		May 14, 2019
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		May 14, 2019
R-FL	Ted S. Yoho		May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Andy Kim		May 16, 2019
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		May 16, 2019
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		May 16, 2019
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo		May 16, 2019
R-VA	Ben Cline		May 17, 2019
R-OH	Steve Chabot		May 17, 2019
R-TX	John Ratcliffe		May 21, 2019
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton		May 22, 2019
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		May 22, 2019
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		May 22, 2019
R-TX	Pete Olson		May 22, 2019
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		May 22, 2019
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 23, 2019
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		May 24, 2019
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		May 24, 2019
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jun 4, 2019
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jun 4, 2019
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 4, 2019
R-AR	J. French Hill		Jun 4, 2019
D-OK	Kendra S. Horn		Jun 10, 2019
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Jun 10, 2019
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Jun 10, 2019
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 10, 2019
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Jun 10, 2019
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Jun 11, 2019
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland		Jun 12, 2019
R-FL	Bill Posey		Jun 18, 2019
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Jun 18, 2019
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Jun 18, 2019
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Jun 19, 2019
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jun 19, 2019
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jun 19, 2019
R-MS	Trent Kelly		Jun 19, 2019
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Jun 24, 2019
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Jun 24, 2019
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 26, 2019
R-IA	Steve King		Jun 27, 2019
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jun 28, 2019
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jul 5, 2019
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		Jul 5, 2019
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Jul 9, 2019
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jul 9, 2019
R-OK	Tom Cole		Jul 9, 2019
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jul 10, 2019
R-AL	Mo Brooks		Jul 10, 2019
R-PA	John Joyce		Jul 11, 2019
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Jul 15, 2019
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Jul 18, 2019
R-TX	Mac Thornberry		Jul 22, 2019
R-NC	Ted Budd		Jul 22, 2019
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Jul 24, 2019
R-LA	Garret Graves		Jul 25, 2019
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Jul 25, 2019
R-FL	Daniel Webster		Aug 6, 2019
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Aug 6, 2019
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Aug 6, 2019
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Aug 16, 2019
R-PA	Daniel Meuser		Aug 16, 2019
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Aug 16, 2019
R-GA	Doug Collins		Aug 16, 2019
R-IN	James R. Baird		Aug 16, 2019
R-MS	Michael Guest		Aug 16, 2019
D-CA	Mike Levin		Aug 16, 2019
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Aug 16, 2019
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Aug 16, 2019
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Aug 20, 2019
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Aug 27, 2019
D-GA	David Scott		Sep 9, 2019
R-AZ	Debbie Lesko		Sep 9, 2019
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Sep 9, 2019
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Sep 9, 2019
R-LA	Mike Johnson		Sep 9, 2019
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia		Sep 9, 2019
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		Sep 11, 2019
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Sep 11, 2019
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 11, 2019
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Sep 17, 2019
R-WV	Carol D. Miller		Sep 17, 2019
D-CA	Harley Rouda		Sep 19, 2019
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Sep 19, 2019
D-CA	Katie Porter		Sep 24, 2019
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Sep 24, 2019
R-NE	Adrian Smith		Sep 25, 2019
R-OH	Anthony Gonzalez		Sep 25, 2019
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Sep 25, 2019
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Sep 26, 2019
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Oct 4, 2019
R-GA	Austin Scott		Oct 21, 2019
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Oct 21, 2019
R-TX	Dan Crenshaw		Oct 21, 2019
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Oct 21, 2019
D-PA	Madeleine Dean		Oct 21, 2019
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Oct 21, 2019
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Oct 21, 2019
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt		Oct 21, 2019
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Oct 22, 2019
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Oct 22, 2019
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Oct 22, 2019
D-CO	Jason Crow		Oct 28, 2019
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Nov 19, 2019
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Dec 16, 2019
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan		Dec 17, 2019
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Dec 18, 2019
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Dec 19, 2019
R-PA	Fred Keller		Mar 9, 2020
R-GA	A. Drew Ferguson IV		Mar 11, 2020
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jun 11, 2020

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jan 11, 2019

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 11, 2019Introduced in House
Jan 11, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H3469	Mike Kelly R-PA	May 7, 2019

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section VIII, Clause I

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 6, January 11, 2019, page H519.

Printed hearings 5

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 116-587	THE STATE OF TRANSPORTATION AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC163 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Jun 3, 2020
Serial No. 116-57	FUNDING A ROBUST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK86 pages	Transportation and Infrastructure Committee	Mar 4, 2020
Serial No. 116-45	WHERE'S MY STUFF? EXAMINING THE ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION133 pages	Transportation and Infrastructure Committee	Dec 5, 2019
Serial No. 116-24	THE STATE OF THE RAIL WORKFORCE114 pages	Transportation and Infrastructure Committee	Jun 20, 2019
S. Hrg. 116-563	CONNECTING AMERICA: EXAMINING INTERMODAL CONNECTIONS ACROSS OUR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK55 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Feb 26, 2019

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 203	BRACE Act of 2019	Related bill	Jan 24, 2019
S 617	Tax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 2019	Related bill	Mar 4, 2019

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the railroad track maintenance credit, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: BRACE Act of 2019; Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy Act of 2019

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 11, 2019Introduced in House

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