Title: Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to amend regulations on hours of service for commercial drivers who transport livestock or insects within a 300 air-mile radius from where the on-duty time of the driver begins.
The regulations must (1) exclude from the driver's on-duty time certain activities, such as loading or unloading a commercial motor vehicle; (2) change the driving time requirement to a maximum of not less than 15, and not more than 18, hours within a 24-hour period; (3) permit the driver to take one or more rest periods during the trip, which shall not be included in the calculation of the driving time; (4) require the driver, after completion of the trip, to take a rest break for a period that is 5 hours less than the maximum driving time; (5) exclude from the calculation of the driving time any additional driving to the point of delivery if the driver is within 150 air-miles of  the point of delivery; and (6) make inapplicable the requirement that the driver take a 10-hour rest period before driving.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1255 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1255

    To require the Secretary of Transportation to modify provisions 
       relating to hours of service requirements with respect to 
    transportation of livestock and insects, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 30, 2019

 Mr. Sasse (for himself, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Risch, Mr. Daines, Mr. Rubio, 
  Mr. Tester, Ms. Smith, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Roberts, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. 
  Moran, Mr. Jones, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Braun, Mr. Enzi, Ms. 
 Ernst, Mrs. Fischer, and Mr. Lankford) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Transportation to modify provisions 
       relating to hours of service requirements with respect to 
    transportation of livestock and insects, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transporting Livestock Across 
America Safely Act''.

SEC. 2. HOURS OF SERVICE REGULATIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION OF LIVESTOCK 
              AND INSECTS.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall amend part 395 of title 49, 
Code of Federal Regulations, to ensure that, in the case of a driver 
transporting livestock (as defined in section 602 of the Agricultural 
Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471)) or insects within a 300 air-mile radius 
from the point at which the on-duty time of the driver begins with 
respect to the trip--
            (1) the on-duty time of the driver shall exclude all time 
        spent--
                    (A) at a plant, terminal, facility, or other 
                property of a motor carrier or shipper or on any public 
                property during which the driver is waiting to be 
                dispatched;
                    (B) loading or unloading a commercial motor 
                vehicle;
                    (C) supervising or assisting in the loading or 
                unloading of a commercial motor vehicle;
                    (D) attending to a commercial motor vehicle while 
                the vehicle is being loaded or unloaded;
                    (E) remaining in readiness to operate a commercial 
                motor vehicle; and
                    (F) giving or receiving receipts for shipments 
                loaded or unloaded;
            (2) except as provided in paragraph (5), the driving time 
        under section 395.3(a)(3)(i) of that title is modified to a 
        maximum of not less than 15, and not more than 18, hours within 
        a 24-hour period;
            (3) the driver may take one or more rest periods during the 
        trip, which shall not be included in the calculation of the 
        driving time;
            (4) after completion of the trip, the driver shall be 
        required to take a rest break for a period that is 5 hours less 
        than the maximum driving time under paragraph (2);
            (5) if the driver is within 150 air-miles of the point of 
        delivery, any additional driving to that point of delivery 
        shall not be included in the calculation of the driving time; 
        and
            (6) the 10-hour rest period under section 395.3(a)(1) of 
        that title shall not apply.
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