Railroads Legislation - Kansas

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish railroad infrastructure maintenance and improvement tax credit for Class II and III railroads; set credit at 50 percent of qualified expenditures, with a credit cap of $4,500 per mile of track, and allow credit to be assigned to a shipper using the rails who pays for the improvements; establish a railroad grade crossing improvement tax credit to improve existing rail crossings; set credit at 25 percent of expenditures, with a credit cap of $1,000,000 statewide each year; establish system of prorating credits among railroad companies if more than $1,000,000 of credits are sought; establish a railroad energy expansion tax credit for rail expansion or upgrade of rail facilities to transport fossil or biomass resources; set credit at 25 percent of expenditures, with a credit cap of $1,000,000 statewide each year; establish system of prorating credits among railroad companies if more than $1,000,000 of credits are sought; specify that an expenditure [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 governing the sanitation of railroad mobile camps; define terms "mobile camp, "maintenance-of-way employee," "permanent assembly point," and "health department"; require at least one heated room at all terminals and headquarters operated by railroad companies; set specific requirements of heated rooms; set specific requirements for mobile camps and permanent assembly points; require railroad companies housing maintenance-of-way employees on the effective date of this act to notify the health department within 30 days of the camp's existence and request and permit inspection by a health department designee; require any railroad company establishing a new mobile camp to notify the health department of the existence of the camp and request and permit inspection prior to occupation; amend KRS 211.180 to give the Cabinet for Health and Family Services authority to regulate the sanitation of mobile camps, permanent assembly points, and railroad terminal [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to establish the state rail bank fund; define terms for the chapter; allow the Transportation Cabinet to acquire all or part of any abandoned rail line or right-of-way proposed for abandonment by purchase or gift; outline the eligibility criteria for the acquisition of an existing rail line or right-of-way or an abandoned rail line or right-of-way; require an environmental audit of property proposed for acquisition; allow the Transportation Cabinet to accept the donation of an abandoned rail line or right-of-way from a railroad company; require that all donated rail lines and rights-of-way be held in the state rail bank fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to provide for the maintenance of any rail line or right-of-way in the state rail bank; allow the Transportation Cabinet to sell or lease any rail line or right-of-way held in the state rail bank; require the Transportation Cabinet to retain a possibility of reverter to revert property back [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish railroad infrastructure maintenance and improvement tax credit for Class II and III railroads; set credit at 50 percent of qualified expenditures, with a credit cap of $4,500 per mile of track, and allow credit to be assigned to a shipper using the rails who pays for the improvements; establish a railroad grade crossing improvement tax credit to improve existing rail crossings; set credit at 25 percent of expenditures, with a credit cap of $1,000,000 statewide each year; establish system of prorating credits among railroad companies if more than $1,000,000 of credits are sought; establish a railroad energy expansion tax credit for rail expansion or upgrade of rail facilities to transport fossil or biomass resources; set credit at 25 percent of expenditures, with a credit cap of $1,000,000 statewide each year; establish system of prorating credits among railroad companies if more than $1,000,000 of credits are sought; specify that an expenditure [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 governing the sanitation of railroad mobile camps; define terms "mobile camp, "maintenance-of-way employee," "permanent assembly point," and "health department"; require at least one heated room at all terminals and headquarters operated by railroad companies; set specific requirements of heated rooms; set specific requirements for mobile camps and permanent assembly points; require railroad companies housing maintenance-of-way employees on the effective date of this act to notify the health department within 30 days of the camp's existence and request and permit inspection by a health department designee; require any railroad company establishing a new mobile camp to notify the health department of the existence of the camp and request and permit inspection prior to occupation; amend KRS 211.180 to give the Cabinet for Health and Family Services authority to regulate the sanitation of mobile camps, permanent assembly points, and railroad terminal [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to establish the state rail bank fund; define terms for the chapter; allow the Transportation Cabinet to acquire all or part of any abandoned rail line or right-of-way proposed for abandonment by purchase or gift; outline the eligibility criteria for the acquisition of an existing rail line or right-of-way or an abandoned rail line or right-of-way; require an environmental audit of property proposed for acquisition; allow the Transportation Cabinet to accept the donation of an abandoned rail line or right-of-way from a railroad company; require that all donated rail lines and rights-of-way be held in the state rail bank fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to provide for the maintenance of any rail line or right-of-way in the state rail bank; allow the Transportation Cabinet to sell or lease any rail line or right-of-way held in the state rail bank; require the Transportation Cabinet to retain a possibility of reverter to revert property back [...]

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