FARM to TABLE Delivery Act

Bill: 116-hr-7102
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13]
Introduced: 2020-06-04
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Administrative remedies

Department of Transportation

General agriculture matters

Labor standards

Motor carriers

Transportation employees
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Fixing America's Regulatory Mess To Facilitate Agricultural Byproducts and Livestock Expedited Delivery Act or the FARM to TABLE Delivery Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises exemptions with respect to commercial motor vehicle safety regulations involving the transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies.</p> <p> The bill allows the federal hours-of-service rules exemption regarding maximum driving and on-duty time for drivers transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies to apply year-round. Current law provides an exception from the federal hours-of-service rules for the transportation of agricultural commodities within a 150 air-mile radius of the normal work reporting location only during planting and harvest periods which are determined by each state.</p> <p>Additionally, the Department of Transportation must issue regulations to amend the definition of agricultural commodity to include specific commodities that are covered by the federal hours-of-service rules exception.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7102 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2020 Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 with respect to exemptions from certain motor carrier regulations, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations related to agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fixing America’s Regulatory Mess To Facilitate Agricultural Byproducts and Livestock Expedited Delivery Act or the FARM to TABLE Delivery Act . 2. Transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies Section 229 of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 ( 49 U.S.C. 31136 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1) by striking during planting and harvest periods, as determined by each State, ; and (2) in subsection (e)(8) by striking during the planting and harvesting seasons within each State, as determined by the State, and livestock feed at any time of the year and inserting and livestock feed . 3. Definition of agricultural commodity (a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall issue such regulations as are necessary to amend the definition of agricultural commodity consistent with this section. (b) Definition of agricultural commodity In this section, the term agricultural commodity means— (1) any product planted or harvested for food, feed, fuel, or fiber; (2) any non-human living animals (including fish, insets, and livestock as defined in section 602 of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 ( 7 U.S.C. 1471 )) and the products thereof, including milk, eggs, and honey; (3) agricultural aquacultural, forestry, horticultural, and floricultural commodities; (4) fruits and vegetables; (5) other agricultural products that are sensitive to temperature and climate and at the risk of perishing in transit; (6) animal feed (including ingredients of such feed); (7) products used during harvest and packaging prior to processing, including bins, boxes, jars, and cans; and (8) products of preservation.