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Calendar No. 546
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2546
[Report No. 107–237]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation
AUGUST 1, 2002
Reported by Mr. HOLLINGS, with amendments
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit States
from requiring a license or fee on account of the fact
that a motor vehicle is providing interstate pre-arranged
ground transportation service, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Real Interstate Driver
Equity Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. REGULATION OF INTERSTATE PRE-ARRANGED
GROUND TRANSPORTATION SERVICE.
Section 14501 of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) PRE-ARRANGED GROUND TRANSPORTATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—No State or political sub-
division thereof and no interstate agency or other
political agency of 2 or more States shall enact or
enforce any law, rule, regulation, standard or other
provision having the force and effect of law requiring
a license or fee on account of the fact that a motor
vehicle is providing pre-arranged ground transpor-
tation service if the motor carrier providing such
service—
‘‘(A) meets all applicable registration re-
quirements under chapter 139 for the interstate
transportation of passengers;
‘‘(B) meets all applicable vehicle and intra-
state passenger licensing requirements of the
State or States in which the motor carrier is
domiciled or registered to do business; and
‘‘(C) is providing such service pursuant to
a contract for—
‘‘(i) travel from one State, including
intermediate stops, to a destination in an-
other State; or
‘‘(ii) travel from one State, including
one or more intermediate stops in another
State, to a destination in the original
State.
‘‘(i) transportation by the motor car-
rier from one State, including intermediate
stops, to a destination in another State; or
‘‘(ii) transportation by the motor car-
rier from one State, including intermediate
stops in another State, to a destination in
the original State.
‘‘(2) INTERMEDIATE
STOP
DEFINED.—In this
section, the term ‘intermediate stop’, with respect to
transportation by a motor carrier, means a pause in
the transportation in order for one or more passengers
to engage in personal or business activity, but only if
the driver providing the transportation to such pas-
senger or passengers does not, before resuming the
transportation of such passenger (or at least 1 of such
passengers), provide transportation to any other per-
son not included among the passengers being trans-
ported when the pause began.
‘‘(2) (3) MATTERS NOT COVERED.—Nothing in
this subsection shall be construed—
‘‘(A) as subjecting taxicab service to regu-
lation under chapter 135 or section 31138;
‘‘(B) as prohibiting or restricting an air-
port, train, or bus terminal operator from con-
tracting to provide preferential access or facili-
ties to one or more providers of pre-arranged
ground transportation service; and
‘‘(C) as restricting the right of any State
or political subdivision of a State to require re-
quire, in a nondiscriminatory manner, that any
individual operating a vehicle providing pre-
arranged ground transportation service origi-
nating in the State or political subdivision have
submitted to pre-licensing drug testing or a
criminal 
background 
investigation 
of 
the
records of the State in which the operator is
domiciled, by the motor carrier providing such
service or by the State or political subdivision
by which the operator is licensed to provide
such service, or by the motor carrier providing
such service, as a condition of providing such
service.’’.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 13102 of title 49, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (17), (18),
(19), (20), (21), and (22) as paragraphs (18), (19),
(21), (22), (23), and (24), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (16) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(17) PRE-ARRANGED
GROUND
TRANSPOR-
TATION SERVICE.—The term ‘pre-arranged ground
transportation service’ means transportation for a
passenger (or a group of passengers) that is ar-
ranged in advance (or is operated on a regular route
or between specified points) and is provided in a
motor vehicle with a seating capacity not exceeding
15 passengers (including the driver).’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (19) (as so re-
designated) the following:
‘‘(20) TAXICAB
SERVICE.—The term ‘taxicab
service’ means passenger transportation in a motor
vehicle having a capacity of not more than 8 pas-
sengers (including the driver), not operated on a
regular route or between specified places, and that—
‘‘(A) is licensed as a taxicab by a State or
a local jurisdiction; or
‘‘(B) is offered by a person that—
‘‘(i) provides local transportation for a
fare determined (except with respect to
transportation to or from airports) pri-
marily on the basis of the distance trav-
eled; and
‘‘(ii) does not primarily provide trans-
portation to or from airports.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) MOTOR
CARRIER
TRANSPORTATION.—Sec-
tion 13506(a)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) a motor vehicle providing taxicab service;’’.
(2) MINIMUM
FINANCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY.—
Section 31138(e)(2) of such title is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(2) providing taxicab service (as defined in
section 13102);’’.
Calendar No. 546
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2546
[Report No. 107–237]
AN ACT
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit
States from requiring a license or fee on account
of the fact that a motor vehicle is providing
interstate pre-arranged ground transportation
service, and for other purposes.
AUGUST 1, 2002
Reported with amendments