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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2920 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an axle weight variance |
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| 6 | 6 | | for certain commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk goods, and |
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| 7 | 7 | | for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL17, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. C |
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| 11 | 11 | | RAWFORD(for himself and Mr. CARBAJAL) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an |
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| 15 | 15 | | axle weight variance for certain commercial motor vehi- |
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| 16 | 16 | | cles transporting dry bulk goods, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Vehicle Axle Redis-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tribution Increases Allow New Capacities for Efficiency 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Act’’ or the ‘‘VARIANCE Act’’. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. DRY BULK AXLE WEIGHT VARIANCE. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | amended by adding at the end the following: 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 May 01, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2920.IH H2920 |
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| 27 | 27 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 2920 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(z) DRYBULKAXLEWEIGHTVARIANCE.— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(1) W |
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| 31 | 31 | | EIGHT VARIANCE.—Notwithstanding any 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | other provision of this section, except for the max-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | imum gross vehicle weight limitation, a commercial 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | motor vehicle transporting dry bulk goods may not 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | exceed 110 percent of the maximum weight on any 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | axle or axle group described in subsection (a), in-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | cluding any enforcement tolerance. 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 39 | 39 | | RY BULK GOODS DEFINED .—In this sub-9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | section, the term ‘dry bulk goods’ means any homo-10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | geneous unmarked, unpackaged, nonliquid cargo 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | being transported in a trailer specifically designed 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | for that purpose.’’. 13 |
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