Requires the Department of Transportation to expand pipeline safety rules, authorize funding for pipeline safety programs through fiscal year 2029, and add carbon dioxide pipelines to many existing federal pipeline safety requirements.

• Authorizes pipeline safety appropriations for fiscal years 2026 through 2029, including grants for gas distribution utilities and one-call damage prevention programs
• Extends existing federal gas and hazardous liquid pipeline safety requirements to cover carbon dioxide pipelines, including vapor dispersion modeling for carbon dioxide pipeline operators
• Makes it a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to knowingly cause a defect in pipeline components or tamper with a pipeline valve
• Directs the Secretary to issue a rule on the idled-pipeline and class location standards, and requires studies on hydrogen blending, geohazards, integrity management, and the costs of pipeline failures

• Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
• Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee

Transportation and Public Works