To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to increase the minimum length limitation for a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination from 28 to 33 feet if such change would not negatively impact public safety.

SA 2815. Mr. WICKER (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2812 proposed by Ms.
Collins (for herself and Mr. Reed) to the bill H.R. 2577, making
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; as follows:

Beginning on page 45, strike line 16 and all that follows
through line 9 on page 46 and insert the following:
Sec. 137.  The Secretary of Transportation may promulgate a
rulemaking to increase the minimum length limitation that a
State may prescribe for a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer
combination under section 31111(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United
States Code, from 28 feet to 33 feet if the Secretary makes a
statistically significant finding, based on the final
Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Limits Study required
under section 32801 of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Enhancement Act of 2012 (title II of division C of Public Law
112-141), that such change would not have a net negative
impact on public safety.
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