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H.R. 487: Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act

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H.R. 487: Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-01-10 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-01-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3] · 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

Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act

Plain summary

Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act This bill requires the Department of Transportation to amend regulations on hours of service for commercial drivers who transport live covered animals (i.e., livestock, honey bees, insects, fish, and crawfish) within a 300 air-mile radius from where the on-duty time of the driver begins. The regulations must (1) exclude from the driver's on-duty time certain activities, such as loading or unloading a commercial motor vehicle; (2) change the driving time requirement to a maximum of not less than 15, and not more than 18, hours within a 24-hour period; (3) permit the driver to take one or more rest periods during the trip, which shall not be included in the calculation of the driving time; (4) require the driver, after completion of the trip, to take a rest break for a period that is five hours less than the maximum driving time; (5) exclude from the calculation of the driving time up to two additional hours, if the driver is within 150 air-miles of the point of delivery; and (6) make inapplicable the requirement that the driver take a 10-hour rest period before driving.

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Official text

Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3] · 45 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Jason Smith (R-MO), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Neal P. Dunn (R-FL), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), James Comer (R-KY), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Warren Davidson (R-OH), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK), David Rouzer (R-NC), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Steve Womack (R-AR), Michael Guest (R-MS), Carol D. Miller (R-WV), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Ben Cline (R-VA), Ron Estes (R-KS), Roger Marshall (R-KS), John W. Rose (R-TN), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), W. Gregory Steube (R-FL)

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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).
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-cong116-hr487 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116