Professional Driver Background Check Efficiency Act of 2006

Professional Driver Background Check Efficiency Act of 2006 - Amends federal transportation law to revise background records check requirements with respect to the issuance of a motor vehicle license for the transportation of hazardous materials to: (1) impose a fee of not more than $50 upon the applicant to cover the costs of the background check; and (2) authorize the costs for such background checks be reimbursed to the state. Prohibits an applicant from being subjected to an additional background records check or having to pay a fee in connection with applying for a transportation security card.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5560 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5560

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit fees imposed in 
   connection with background checks for the issuance of licenses to 
  operate a motor vehicle transporting a hazardous material, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2006

 Mr. Carnahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit fees imposed in 
   connection with background checks for the issuance of licenses to 
  operate a motor vehicle transporting a hazardous material, 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 ``Professional Driver Background Check 
Efficiency Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. BACKGROUND RECORDS CHECKS FOR MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSES FOR THE 
              TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.

    Section 5103a(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Cost.--The total amount of a fee imposed upon a 
        person to cover costs, including administrative and other 
        costs, associated with carrying out a background records check 
        under this section shall not exceed $50.
            ``(4) Assistance to states.--The Secretary may reimburse a 
        State for costs incurred by the State in connection with 
        background records checks carried out under this section.''.

SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF REDUNDANT BACKGROUND RECORDS CHECKS.

    Section 5103a(g)(1)(B) of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) Special rule relating to 
                        transportation security cards.--An individual 
                        described in clause (i) shall not be subject to 
                        an additional background records check in 
                        connection with the issuance of a 
                        transportation security card under section 
                        70105 of title 46 and shall not be required to 
                        pay a fee under such section.''.

SEC. 4. STUDY TO IDENTIFY REDUNDANT BACKGROUND RECORDS CHECKS.

    (a) Study.--The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of 
background records checks carried out by Federal departments and 
agencies that are similar to the background records check required 
under section 5103a of title 49, United States Code, to identify 
redundancies and inefficiencies in connection with such checks.
    (b) Contents.--In conducting the study, the Comptroller General 
shall review, at a minimum, the background records checks carried out 
by--
            (1) the Secretary of Defense;
            (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
            (3) the Secretary of Energy.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report on 
the results of the study, including an identification of redundancies 
and inefficiencies referred to in subsection (a) and recommendations 
for eliminating such redundancies and inefficiencies.
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