S 1820
107th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Administrative fees
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Fire fighters
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Law
Standards
Transportation of hazardous substances
Transportation safety
Transportation workers
HERO Act
Introduced: December 13, 2001
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
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To President
Became law
Dec 13, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13149)
Dec 13, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13148-13149)
Dec 13, 2001
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Heroic Emergency Response Operations Act or HERO ACT - Amends Federal transportation law regarding annual fees collected by the Secretary of Transportation paid by persons transporting hazardous materials in commerce to stipulate that up to five percent of such funds annually may now be used for developing minimum national standards for, as well as to develop and conduct, security training dealing with commercial transportation of hazardous materials.
Limits to $1 million per fiscal year the amount available for supplemental training grants from the collected funds.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13149)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1