Three Congressional committees have jurisdiction over pipeline safety laws; the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation, the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) and the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) committees. The Senate committee approved a pipeline safety bill and AGA and other trade associations wrote a letter to the Senate requesting that the bill be immediately brought before the full Senate for passage. On July 27 the Energy and Power subcommittee of the House E&C committee marked up a bill that is very similar to the Senate pipeline bill. The full E&C committee is expected to shortly have a markup hearing of this bill. The House T&I committee has not yet developed a draft bill, but expects to work on pipeline safety in August because Congress is expected to have few days in session in September. The bills have been separately developed, each will have to receive a floor vote and then the House and Senate versions will be reconciled in conference. The bills developed by the Senate and the House E&C Committee are included below. In addition, AGA has developed a chart that compares how key pipeline issues are addressed in the Senate bill, the House E&C bill and the DOT bill: