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H.R. 6178: Honest Operators Undertake Road Safety Act

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H.R. 6178: Honest Operators Undertake Road Safety Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-06-21 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-06-21 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Honest Operators Undertake Road Safety Act

Plain summary

Honest Operators Undertake Road Safety Act or the HOURS Act This bill amends the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 with respect to commercial motor vehicle safety regulations involving the transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies. The Department of Transportation (DOT) shall issue or revise regulations to ensure that a driver is exempt from requirements with respect to a driver's record of duty status and supporting documents, if (1) the driver meets certain requirements, including that he or she operates within a 150 air-mile radius of the normal work reporting location and, if driving a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle, returns to the work reporting location and is released from work within 14 consecutive hours; and (2) the motor carrier that employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of six months accurate and true records showing certain information, including the time the driver reports for duty each day and the total number of hours the driver is on duty each day. DOT shall issue or revise regulations to ensure that a driver or motor carrier subject to the use of an electronic logging device, hall only be required, for purposes of federal hours of service requirements, to obtain and retain supporting documentation regarding the start and end times of each applicable daily on-duty period. The public participation requirements shall not apply to a rulemaking regarding hours of service requirements as they relate to sleeper berths for property-carrying commercial motor vehicle drivers.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Honest Operators Undertake Road Safety Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] · 18 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Austin Scott (R-GA), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Brian Babin (R-TX), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Steve Womack (R-AR), J. French Hill (R-AR), Don Bacon (R-NE), Brett Guthrie (R-KY)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] reported raising $1.1 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Words on this page, explained (3)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Exemption
A rule that removes certain people, property or activities from a tax or requirement.
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr6178 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115