Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities.

The specific trip time targets for Amtrak Cascades were reduced, extending the travel time between Seattle and Portland to 2 hours 45 minutes and between Seattle and Vancouver to 3 hours 20 minutes.

The bill now explicitly recognizes that achieving the 2035 goals requires voluntary financial and operational contributions from the governments of Canada, Oregon, and British Columbia.

The emission reduction goal was updated to align with general state goals rather than a specific reference to a particular chapter of the Revised Code of Washington.

The specific requirement to engage with host railroads to identify additional infrastructure needed for speed increases was removed, likely due to the reduction in the speed targets.

A new sentence was added to clarify that meeting the 2035 goals depends on voluntary investments from entities outside Washington state.

The bill's effective date was updated from February 4, 2025, to February 28, 2025, and the bill number changed from H-0899.3 to H-1745.1.

Specific trip time targets were replaced with broader goals for reliability, frequency, speed, first/last mile connections, and emissions reductions.

The department's reporting obligations were updated to cover the new set of target goals rather than just specific trip times.

The requirement to prioritize targets was modified to include 'data-driven analyses' and was expanded to cover the new categories of goals.