S 1509
116th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Forests, forestry, trees
Motor carriers
Roads and highways
Safe Routes Act of 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 16, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 16, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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