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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8998

  To require the Transportation Research Board to evaluate innovative 
     hull designs and the use of alternative material construction 
   technologies to enhance operational fleet performance and payload 
                capacity of waterborne transit systems.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2026

 Ms. Scholten introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

 
  To require the Transportation Research Board to evaluate innovative 
     hull designs and the use of alternative material construction 
   technologies to enhance operational fleet performance and payload 
                capacity of waterborne transit systems.

    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 ``Researching Innovative Shipbuilding 
and Next-Generation Transit Infrastructure for Durable and Efficient 
Systems''.

SEC. 2. INNOVATIVE HULL DESIGNS.

    The Transportation Research Board shall evaluate innovative hull 
designs, as well as the use of alternative material construction 
technologies, to include the use of carbon fiber, hybrids, and other 
composite fiber-reinforced polymers to enhance operational fleet 
performance and payload capacity of waterborne transit systems.
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Researching Innovative Shipbuilding and Next-Generation Transit Infrastructure for Durable and Efficient Systems

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