Title: Keep on Trucking Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Keep on Trucking Act
This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation from prescribing requirements relating to maximum hours of service for drivers operating property-carrying commercial motor vehicles.
Additionally, drivers operating a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle on behalf of a motor carrier shall be permitted at least 10 consecutive hours in a 24-hour period off duty when they inform the motor carrier that they need immediate rest.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8417 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8417

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of 
 Transportation from issuing regulations relating to maximum hours of 
service for drivers of certain commercial motor vehicles, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2022

   Mr. Mast introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of 
 Transportation from issuing regulations relating to maximum hours of 
service for drivers of certain commercial motor vehicles, 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 ``Keep on Trucking Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS, HOURS OF SERVICE, SAFETY, AND 
              EQUIPMENT STANDARDS.

    Section 31502 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary of Transportation 
                may prescribe requirements for--'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of Transportation may 
        prescribe requirements for--'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Exception.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, the Secretary may not prescribe requirements for maximum 
        hours of service of a driver operating a property-carrying 
        commercial motor vehicle.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Hours of Service Requirement.--Any driver operating a 
property-carrying commercial motor vehicle on behalf of a motor carrier 
or a motor private carrier shall be permitted at least 10 consecutive 
hours in a 24-hour period off duty when such driver informs the motor 
carrier or motor private carrier that such driver needs immediate 
rest.''.
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