[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1043 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1043

    To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for constructing, 
 positioning, or modifying highway signs that are expressed in metric 
                          system measurements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 1993

  Mrs. Byrne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for constructing, 
 positioning, or modifying highway signs that are expressed in metric 
                          system measurements.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. METRIC SYSTEM SIGNING.

    (a) No Federal funds may be expended to construct, erect, or 
otherwise place any sign relating to any speed limit, any distance, or 
any other measurement, on any highway if such sign establishes such 
speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the metric system.
    (b) No Federal funds may be expended to modify any sign relating to 
any speed limit, any distance, or any other measurement on any highway 
for the conversion of such sign to the metric system.
    (c) For purposes of subsections (a) and (b)--
            (1) the term ``highway'' means a highway as defined in 
        section 101 of title 23, United States Code; and
            (2) the term ``metric system'' means metric system of 
        measurement as defined in section 4 of the Metric Conversion 
        Act of 1975 (15 U.S.C. 205c).

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