Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2012

Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that, with respect to maximum hours of service for drivers, on-duty time does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for operators of commercial motor vehicles transporting supplies, equipment, or materials, including sand or water, to or from a natural gas or oil well site.

Applies this exclusion without regard to whether operators have received special training or operate vehicles specially constructed to service wells.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6451 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6451

 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that on-duty time 
  does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for 
  certain commercial motor vehicle operators, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that on-duty time 
  does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for 
  certain commercial motor vehicle operators, 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 ``Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act 
of 2012''.

SEC. 2. WAITING TIME EXCEPTION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that 
the exception described in section 395.1(d)(2) of title 49, Code of 
Federal Regulations (relating to on-duty time not including waiting 
time at a natural gas or oil well site) applies to covered operators, 
except that the exception shall apply to such operators without regard 
to whether such operators have received special training or operate 
vehicles specially constructed to service wells.
    (b) Covered Operator Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
operator'' means the operator of a commercial motor vehicle 
transporting supplies, equipment, or materials, including sand or 
water, to or from a natural gas or oil well site.
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