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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2514
To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to restroom access
for certain drivers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH31, 2025
Mr. N
EHLS(for himself, Ms. HOULAHAN, Ms. SCHOLTEN, and Mr. BABIN)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to
restroom access for certain drivers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Trucker Bathroom Ac-4
cess Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. RESTROOM ACCESS FOR DRIVERS. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 141 of 7
title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 8
end the following: 9
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‘‘§ 14105. Restroom access for drivers 1
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—A covered driver shall be granted 2
access to any covered restroom facility at any covered es-3
tablishment to which such employee delivers any goods or 4
cargo or is waiting to be loaded to transport goods or 5
cargo. 6
‘‘(b) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-7
tion shall be construed to require a covered establishment 8
to make any physical changes to a restroom to be in com-9
pliance with this section. 10
‘‘(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 11
‘‘(1) C
OVERED DRIVER.—The term ‘covered 12
driver’ means any commercial motor vehicle operator 13
with respect to whom the Secretary of Transpor-14
tation has power to establish qualifications and max-15
imum hours of service pursuant to the provisions of 16
section 31502. 17
‘‘(2) C
OVERED RESTROOM FACILITY .—The 18
term ‘covered restroom facility’ means a restroom lo-19
cated on the premises of a covered establishment 20
that is intended for use by customers or employees 21
of the establishment and that is— 22
‘‘(A) located in an area where providing 23
access would not create an obvious health or 24
safety risk to a covered driver; and 25
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‘‘(B) located in an area where providing 1
access would not pose an obvious security risk 2
to the covered establishment. 3
‘‘(3) C
OVERED ESTABLISHMENT .—The term 4
‘covered establishment’— 5
‘‘(A) means a place of business open to the 6
general public for the sale of goods or services; 7
‘‘(B) a shipper, receiver, manufacturer, 8
warehouse, distribution center, or any other 9
business entity that is receiving or sending 10
goods by commercial motor vehicle; and 11
‘‘(C) does not include any structure such 12
as a filling station, service station, or res-13
taurant of 800 square feet or less that has a 14
restroom located within such structure that is 15
only intended for use by employees.’’. 16
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-17
ter 141 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 18
inserting after the item relating to section 14104 the fol-19
lowing new item: 20
‘‘14105. Restroom access for drivers.’’.
SEC. 3. RESTROOM ACCESS FOR DRAYAGE TRUCK OPERA-
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TORS. 22
(a) I
NGENERAL.—A terminal operator shall provide 23
a sufficient number of covered restrooms for use by cov-24
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ered drayage truck operators in areas of the terminal that 1
such operators typically have access to. 2
(b) R
EQUIREMENTS.—To be in compliance with sub-3
section (a), a terminal operator shall provide— 4
(1) access to existing restrooms while covered 5
drayage truck operators are on port property and 6
when such access does not pose an obvious safety 7
risk to such truck operators and other employees of 8
the terminal operator in the area; 9
(2) additional restrooms, if necessary, at loca-10
tions where there is the most need; and 11
(3) a place for covered drayage truck operators 12
to park vehicles while accessing such restrooms. 13
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 14
(1) C
OVERED DRAYAGE TRUCK OPERATOR .— 15
The term ‘‘covered drayage truck operator’’ means 16
the driver of any in-use on-road vehicle with a gross 17
vehicle weight rating of greater than 33,000 pounds 18
operating on or transgressing through port or inter-19
modal rail yard property for the purpose of loading, 20
unloading, or transporting cargo, including contain-21
erized, bulk, or break-bulk goods. 22
(2) T
ERMINAL OPERATOR .—The term ‘‘ter-23
minal operator’’— 24
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(A) means the business entity operating a 1
marine terminal for loading and unloading 2
cargo to and from marine vessels; and 3
(B) includes the port authority if the port 4
is directly operating the marine terminal in 5
loading and unloading cargo to and from ma-6
rine vessels. 7
(3) C
OVERED RESTROOM .—The term ‘‘covered 8
restroom’’ means a restroom or portable chemical 9
toilet that is located in an area that does not pose 10
an obvious health or safety risk to a covered drayage 11
truck operator. 12
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