Title: Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization Act of 2021
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization Act of 2021
This bill exempts farm vehicles from specified registration requirements that otherwise apply to commercial motor vehicles, such as those under the Unified Carrier Registration Agreement and the International Fuel Tax Agreement. The bill also increases the maximum permitted gross weight for farm vehicles from 26,001 pounds to 36,001 pounds.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3138 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3138

   To amend the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act to 
 exempt covered farm vehicles from certain requirements, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 2, 2021

  Mr. Marshall (for himself and Mr. Ossoff) 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 amend the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act to 
 exempt covered farm vehicles from certain requirements, 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 ``Covered Farm Vehicle Modernization 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FOR COVERED FARM VEHICLES.

    Section 32934 of MAP-21 (49 U.S.C. 31136 note; Public Law 112-141) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Any requirement relating to registration under 
        section 31134 of title 49, United States Code, including any 
        requirement relating to a USDOT number under that section.
            ``(7) Any requirement relating to registration under the 
        unified carrier registration agreement (as defined in section 
        14504a(a) of title 49, United States Code).'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), 
                respectively, and indenting appropriately;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Paragraph (1)'' 
                and inserting ``Subparagraph (A)'';
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting 
                appropriately;
                    (D) by inserting before subparagraph (A) (as so 
                designated) the following:
            ``(1) Federal transportation funding.--''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) IFTA requirements.--A covered farm vehicle and the 
        individual operating that covered farm vehicle shall be exempt 
        from any requirement relating to a license under the 
        International Fuel Tax Agreement (as defined in section 31701 
        of title 49, United States Code).''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking ``26,001'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``36,001''.
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