Agricultural Trucking Relief Act of 2018

Agricultural Trucking Relief Act of 2018

This bill amends the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to revise the definition of "agricultural commodity" to include

• agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, and floricultural commodities;
• fruits;
• vegetables;
• any non-human living animal and the products thereof; and
• other agriculture products that are sensitive to temperature or climate and at risk of perishing in transit.

The transportation of agricultural commodities is exempt from requirements of such Act.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7004 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7004

To amend the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 with respect 
 to the definition of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2018

 Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 with respect 
 to the definition of agricultural commodities, 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 ``Agricultural Trucking Relief Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.

    Section 229(e)(7) of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 
1999 (49 U.S.C. 31136 note) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(7) Agricultural commodity.--The term `agricultural 
        commodity' includes--
                    ``(A) agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, 
                and floricultural commodities;
                    ``(B) fruits;
                    ``(C) vegetables;
                    ``(D) any non-human living animal and the products 
                thereof; and
                    ``(E) other agriculture products that are--
                            ``(i) sensitive to temperature or climate; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) at risk of perishing in transit.''.
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