The bill provides the largest ever investment in America’s bridges, focuses on proven surface transportation infrastructure programs, provides passenger rail investments and reforms, improves rail safety, ensures that transportation projects and programs are more efficient, encourages innovation, and provides the first ever autonomous commercial motor vehicle framework.
The bill commits to passenger rail investment and reforms along with rail safety improvements.
The legislation ... invests in America’s roads, bridges, transit, rail transportation, and highway and motor carrier safety programs ... reforms passenger rail programs, and improves highway, motor carrier, and rail safety.
The page says the BUILD America 250 Act would invest in rail transportation, reform passenger rail programs, and improve rail safety.
Reports that the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the BUILD America 250 Act by a 62-2 vote on May 22 and that the measure still needed full House and Senate action. The article describes the bill as a five-year transportation package focused on autonomous trucking safety standards and workforce grants, not as enacted rail legislation.
Committee-level movement shows serious legislative effort, but no enacted passenger rail investments or rail-safety reforms in the lookback window.
States that the BUILD America 250 Act was still pending before Congress on June 10 and describes a proposed federal EV and hybrid road-use fee contained in the bill. The reporting confirms the measure remained legislative work in progress rather than completed law.
The bill was still pending in Congress in June, reinforcing that the claimed rail delivery had not been completed.
The committee release says Graves and Larsen released the bill text and that the bill includes rail transportation, passenger rail reforms, and rail safety provisions.
Official House Transportation and Infrastructure material shows Graves advanced a concrete bill aimed at the promised passenger rail and rail-safety policy areas, but the release described a proposal with a future goal of reaching the President before September 30, 2026, not an enacted law.
The release identifies H.R. 8870 as the BUILD America 250 Act, introduced by Chairman Sam Graves and others, with passenger rail and rail-safety provisions.
This official introduction notice directly ties Sam Graves to H.R. 8870 and confirms the bill text targeted passenger rail investments and reforms and improved rail safety, supporting serious legislative effort rather than completed delivery.
The summary describes CRISI, intercity passenger rail, corridor development, Amtrak reforms, rail bridge safety, safety culture grants, cameras, penalties, and FRA workforce provisions.
The official section-by-section summary shows the bill contained substantive passenger rail investment/reform mechanisms and rail-safety provisions, but these are framed as sections of a bill requiring enactment.
The committee markup page says the committee approved an ANS to H.R. 8870 and lists official vote results and amendments.
The official markup page confirms formal committee action on H.R. 8870, indicating concrete advancement of the promise in committee but not final House, Senate, or presidential approval.
The House Committee Repository says the bill was ordered favorably reported to the House by a 62-2 recorded vote.
The official House repository confirms H.R. 8870 advanced out of committee, which supports an effort badge. It also shows the action stopped at favorable reporting to the House, not enactment.
The committee said it approved H.R. 8870 after markup; Graves said he looked forward to moving it on the House floor and working with the Senate.
The committee approval notice confirms progress but also indicates additional House floor and Senate action were still needed, so the promised investments and reforms had not yet been delivered by enactment.
Business Insider reported the bill cleared committee and still needed full House and Senate approval before going to the President.
Independent reporting shortly after committee passage confirms H.R. 8870 had not become law and remained subject to full congressional passage and presidential signature.
The Midland Reporter-Telegram described the BUILD America 250 Act proposal as a bill pending before Congress.
Reporting on June 10, 2026 characterized the BUILD America 250 Act as still pending, reinforcing that the rail investments, reforms, and safety changes had not been enacted by that date.
The available evidence shows the BUILD America 250 Act advanced meaningfully in committee, including Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approval in May 2026, which supports giving candidate credit for serious legislative effort. But the bill was still pending before Congress as of June 10, 2026, and there is no evidence that the promised passenger rail investments, rail reforms, or rail-safety improvements were enacted or otherwise delivered. Under the federal-office timing rule, committee advancement without final passage is not full delivery, so this is best scored as a failed attempt rather than delivered or partial.
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