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S 1509 116th Congress Senate Transportation and Public Works Forests, forestry, trees Motor carriers Roads and highways

Safe Routes Act of 2019

Introduced: May 16, 2019 Introduced by: Johnson, Ron Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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May 16, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 16, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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Safe Routes Act of 2019

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive any vehicle weight limit for covered logging vehicles.

The term "covered logging vehicle" means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles from the point of origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets applicable state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the boundaries of each state in which the vehicle is operating.

What's happening now May 16, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2453 Related bill Safe Routes Act of 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1509: Safe Routes Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1509/
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"S. 1509: Safe Routes Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1509/.
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S. 1509, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1509/.
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