* DC - House passes MAP-21 extension bill. The five-month measure buy more time for a longer measure
-- The House passed a bill Wednesday to temporarily shore up funding for transportation programs and prevent a shutdown in highway and transit aid to states at the end of this month. But Senate Republicans are trying to cobble together a longer-term bill that could provide money for several years... The House bill would provide $8 billion to keep transportation aid flowing through Dec. 18 while lawmakers work on a long-term bill...
Washington, DC, USA - The Associated Press/The Trucker, by JOAN LOWY and DAVID ESPO - 16 July 2015
* DC - Senate proposes trucking regulatory package to attach to long-term highway bill
-- The Senate’s committee on transportation and commerce is scheduled to take up Wednesday, July 15, an expansive transportation regulatory reform package that calls for the removal of CSA scores from public view, allows hair testing to satisfy driver drug testing requirements and allows under-21 CDL holders to drive interstate, among other stipulations... The regulatory package would be a companion piece to the six-year highway bill, the DRIVE Act, already passed by the Senate’s Environmental and Public Works Committee... Debate and voting on the Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act would remove scores in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program from public view...
Washington, DC, USA - Truck News, by James Jaillet - July 15, 2015Labels: infrastructures funds, rules and regulations
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