H.R. 1803 (112th): Jason’s Law

Introduced:
May 10, 2011 (112th Congress, 2011–2013)
Sponsor:
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY21]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
See Instead:

S. 1187 (same title)
Referred to Committee — Jun 13, 2011

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.

(About Ads | Advertise Here)
Status

This bill was introduced on May 10, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced May 10, 2011
Referred to Committee May 10, 2011
Cosponsors
27 cosponsors (18D, 9R) (show)
Committees

House Transportation and Infrastructure

The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Full Title

To amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to improve truck parking facilities.

Summary

No summaries available.

Text

Read Bill Text »

Last updated May 10, 2011.
4 pages

Primary Source

View on THOMAS (The Library of Congress)

GovTrack gets most information from THOMAS, which is updated generally one day after events occur. Activity since the last update may not be reflected here.

Citation

Click a format for a citation suggestion:

GovTrack’s Bill Summary

We don’t have a summary available yet.

Library of Congress Summary

The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.

5/10/2011--Introduced.
Jason's Law - Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to direct the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) with respect to the pilot program to allocate funds to states, metropolitan planning organizations, and local governments to establish long-term parking facilities for commercial motor vehicles (trucks) on the National Highway System. Requires applications to incorporate one or more specified factors, such as:
(1) addressing a safety need through development of additional truck parking capacity for use in hours-of-service compliance, and
(2) reducing congestion and improving air quality mitigation.
Directs the Secretary to conduct a survey annually:
(1) regarding the capacity of each state to provide adequate parking and rest facilities for trucks, and
(2) assessing the volume of truck traffic through the state and developing a metrics system to measure the adequacy of the state's parking facilities.

House Republican Conference Summary

The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

No summary available.

House Democratic Caucus Summary

The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.

So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That’s because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.

We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.

The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:

United States Code

The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)