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<dc:title>119 HR 4095 IH: Railroad Yardmaster Protection Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-06-24</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4095</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250624">June 24, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="C001112">Mr. Carbajal</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="L000599">Mr. Lawler</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HPW00">Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for limitations on duty hours for yardmaster employees, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HD3A50A4B7CD64C97AF664C82C66CA005" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H23DC194C6A694B478C416CD3492A2274" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Railroad Yardmaster Protection Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H13847D817BE0423893EA6C9AF889D7D2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header>Limitations on duty hours of yardmaster employees</header> <subsection id="H6D909EC121E745C8B21EE9BCC5858031"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Limitations on duty hours of yardmaster employees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 21103 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC2689544E5B941B2882613DAD052672C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading of such section, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">and yardmaster employees</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">train employees</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF8D1019A9B8B45BEBC784DD3756B6447"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or yardmaster employee</quote> after <quote>train employee</quote> each place it appears; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC0BF34B5362F48B6BFA74C91099727C4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by inserting <quote>or yardmaster</quote> after <quote>During a train</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF372A58E51464F028D3D3D013468FFFD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 21101 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBF5255D29C2F4AE688645A2BA23C1419"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3) by inserting <quote>a yardmaster employee,</quote> after <quote>dispatching service employee,</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF6B6EB9C7B174A0DB18406CF85E8737E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HC9CFB149F89340CD928C6FC2FD371166" indent="down1"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>yardmaster employee</quote> means an individual responsible for supervising and coordinating the control of trains and engines operating within a rail yard.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC63F2F77D3DD4B54A7770158872E4AE5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of sections for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/49/211">chapter 211</external-xref> of title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 21103 and inserting the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">21103. Limitations on duty hours of train employees and yardmaster employees.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> 
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