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 live covered animals (i.e., livestock, honey bees, insects, fish, and crawfish) 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 five hours less than the maximum driving time; (5) exclude from the calculation of the driving time up to two additional hours, 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]
[H.R. 487 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 487

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2019

 Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Peterson, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Weber of Texas, 
 Mr. Gosar, Mr. Walker, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fortenberry, 
 Mr. Cole, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Mullin, 
 Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Palazzo, 
  Mr. Comer, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Gianforte, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. 
Buck, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Davidson of Ohio, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. 
    Lucas, and Mr. Rouzer) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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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 certain live animals, 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 CERTAIN 
              ANIMALS.

    (a) In General.--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 a covered animal 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, the driver may continue for not more than 2 
        additional hours, which 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.
    (b) Covered Animal.--In this Act, the term ``covered animal'' means 
a live animal that is one of the following:
            (1) Livestock (as defined in section 602 of the 
        Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471)).
            (2) Honey bees.
            (3) Insects.
            (4) Fish.
            (5) Crawfish.
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