This bill requires Amtrak to report each year on how it is carrying out the recommendations of the Amtrak Food and Beverage Working Group. It adds a new advisory committee that Amtrak must set up within one year. The advisory committee must include representatives from Amtrak, labor organizations for employees who prepare or provide on-board food and beverage service, nonprofit groups that represent Amtrak passengers, and States that provide funding for State-supported routes. Amtrak must submit an annual implementation status report to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and post the report on a public website. Each report must describe progress on each recommendation, identify recommendations that are complete, identify recommendations Amtrak finds impractical or impossible and explain why, provide estimated costs when lack of funding is a reason, describe how food and beverage service has changed since the prior report, and include comments from the advisory committee. The bill also directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to the same congressional committees within two years on Amtrak’s progress.
No publicly available information on total costs or any new funding in the bill text. The bill requires Amtrak to provide estimated costs for recommendations it says are impractical due to insufficient funding.
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