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[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1008 Introduced in House (IH)]

107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1008

 To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of 
    the Federal Motor Carrier Administration from taking action to 
finalize, implement, or enforce a rule related to the hours of service 
         of drivers for motor carriers, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2001

 Mr. Terry (for himself, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, 
   Mr. Paul, Mr. Hilleary, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. 
Shimkus, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Herger, Mr. Ryun of 
 Kansas, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Pombo, Mr. 
 Shadegg, Mr. Gary Miller of California, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. 
Buyer, Mr. Ehrlich, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Otter, Mr. Schaffer, Mr. Riley, Mr. 
Ney, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of 
    the Federal Motor Carrier Administration from taking action to 
finalize, implement, or enforce a rule related to the hours of service 
         of drivers for motor carriers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON ACTIONS TO FINALIZE, IMPLEMENT, OR ENFORCE 
              RULE.

    Neither the Secretary of Transportation nor the Administrator of 
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may take any action or 
use any funding to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule 
entitled ``Hours of Service of Drivers'' published by the Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration in the Federal Register on May 2, 2000 
(65 Fed. Reg. 25539 et seq. and Docket No. FMCSA 97-2350-953) and 
issued under the authority delegated to the Administrator under section 
113 of title 49, United States Code.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PROCEED THROUGH PROCESS.

    Notwithstanding section 1, the Secretary of Transportation and the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may proceed through all 
stages of the rulemaking (other than adoption of a final rule) for the 
proposed rule referred to in section 1, including issuing a 
supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON EFFECTIVE DATE OF FINAL RULE.

    Subject to section 1, a final rule with respect to the subject 
matter of the proposed rule referred to in section 1 may only take 
effect after the last day of the 180-day period beginning on the date 
on which the Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator of the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration transmits to Congress a 
copy of the final rule.
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