Support amending the BUILD America 250 Act before House floor consideration to remove the provision shielding rideshare companies from liability for injuries, sexual assaults, fatalities, or other harms caused by company negligence.

Julia Brownley · California · Democratic

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.88 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

Occurrences

We write to urge you to strip out a provision in Title I of the BUILD America 250 Act (H.R. 8870), that would endanger consumers across the United States. The provision, which faced bipartisan opposition in markup, would shield rideshare companies from liability for crashes and sexual assaults caused by their negligence. This provision must be removed from the BUILD America 250 Act before it is considered on the House Floor.

Brownley joined a delegation letter urging House leaders to remove a rideshare liability shield from H.R. 8870 before the bill reaches the House floor.

Brownley Joins Lofgren, Tran, and California Delegation in Opposition to Shielding Rideshare Companies from Liability - Congresswoman Julia Brownley
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Evidence

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Introduced H.R. 8870 includes Sec. 3104, a special rule for transportation network company and taxicab service drivers under 49 CFR part 655.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official introduced bill text confirms the ride-hail/transportation-network-company provision exists in H.R. 8870, but this source does not show Brownley supporting an amendment to remove it.

unresolved same_term

H.R. 8870 IH - BUILD America 250 Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 89%

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The official filed-amendments page lists Brownley amendments 061 through 071, with several marked withdrawn.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Brownley filed multiple amendments for the committee markup, but the official amendment list and linked Brownley amendment texts do not show a rideshare-liability or transportation-network-company removal amendment.

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BUILD America 250 Act Markup Amendments
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The committee repository says Brownley's en bloc amendment was withdrawn and H.R. 8870 was ordered favorably reported by 62 yeas to 2 nays.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official committee action shows Brownley amendments were withdrawn and the bill advanced from committee; it does not show the promised targeted amendment being adopted before floor consideration.

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House Committee Repository - Markup of H.R. 8870
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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The committee announced approval of H.R. 8870 and said Chairman Graves looked forward to moving the bill on the House floor in the near future.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill had cleared committee and was awaiting House floor action; this keeps the commitment unresolved rather than delivered or finally failed as of this evidence.

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T&I Committee Approves BUILD America 250 Act
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The official House floor page for the week of June 29, last updated June 30, lists scheduled legislation and does not list H.R. 8870.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the June 11-July 10 lookback window, the official floor schedule found did not show H.R. 8870 coming to the House floor, so the pre-floor amendment commitment remained unresolved.

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Bills This Week - Home
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The Build America 250 Act must be amended, and this provision stripped, before it is considered on the House Floor.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Brownley’s official House office states she joined the delegation letter opposing the rideshare-liability shield; the quoted letter text expressly calls for stripping the provision before House floor consideration, satisfying the support commitment.

delivered same_term A for effort

Brownley Joins Lofgren, Tran, and California Delegation in Opposition to Shielding Rideshare Companies from Liability - Congresswoman Julia Brownley
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The following are links to the text of legislation scheduled for consideration during the week of Sep. 14, 2026.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The current official House floor list for the September 14, 2026 week does not list H.R. 8870, indicating the bill still had not reached floor consideration by the refresh date; Brownley’s June 12 support therefore occurred before House floor consideration.

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Bills This Week - Home
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Assessments

Public state: delivered As of 2026-09-14 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. same_term A for effort

The verified commitment is a support/advocacy commitment: Brownley joined a letter urging that the BUILD America 250 Act be amended to strip the rideshare liability shield before House floor consideration. Verified evidence shows the letter stated the provision must be stripped before floor consideration, and the verified House floor passage supports that the action occurred before floor consideration as of September 14, 2026. This fulfills the support commitment, without needing proof that the bill was actually amended or enacted.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown

The promise was specifically to support amending H.R. 8870 before House floor consideration to remove the rideshare-liability shield. The evidence shows the provision existed in the introduced bill, Brownley filed several committee amendments, but the official amendment materials do not show a targeted rideshare-liability removal amendment, and her en bloc amendment was withdrawn. The bill had advanced from committee but had not yet appeared on the House floor within the reviewed window, so the promised pre-floor action had not been delivered or finally foreclosed as of the evidence provided.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%