Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5499
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Marine and inland water transportation

Transportation costs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill provides that a rate for service in noncontiguous domestic trade or water carrier for port-to-port service in that trade is reasonable if such rate is within 10% of a rate set by a comparable international ocean rate index recognized by the Federal Maritime Commission. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5499 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2019 Mr. Case introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To provide a definition of reasonable rate for noncontiguous domestic ocean trade, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2019 . 2. Noncontiguous domestic ocean trade Section 13701(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following new paragraph: (1) In general For purposes of this section, a rate is reasonable if such rate is within 10 percent of a rate set by a comparable international ocean rate index recognized by the Federal Maritime Commission. .