49 U.S.C. § 24321 — Food and beverage service

(a) Working Group — (1) Establishment: within 180 days of the Passenger Rail Expansion and Rail Safety Act of 2021, Amtrak must set up a working group to recommend ways to improve its onboard food and beverage service. (2) Membership: the group must include people representing (A) Amtrak, (B) labor unions for employees who prepare or serve onboard food, (C) nonprofits that represent Amtrak passengers, and (D) states that fund state-supported routes. (b) Report — Within a year of the group being formed, it must report to the Senate Commerce Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with recommendations covering: (1) ways to improve Amtrak's finances; (2) ways to grow and keep ridership; (3) the different needs of long-distance, state-supported, and Northeast Corridor passengers; (4) passenger survey data about the food and drinks offered; (5) ways to add local food and drink options on state-supported routes; and (6) any other issue the group thinks matters. (c) Implementation — Within 180 days of that report, Amtrak must submit a plan to put the recommendations into action, and explain any recommendations it disagrees with and won't follow, to the same two committees. (d) Savings Clause — Amtrak must make sure no employee who held a long-distance or Northeast Corridor job as of the 2021 Act's enactment loses that job because of this plan being developed or carried out.