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[H.R. 2546 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2546

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit States from requiring 
    a license or fee on account of the fact that a motor vehicle is 
providing interstate pre-arranged ground transportation service, and for 
                             other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Real Interstate Driver Equity Act of 
2002''.

SEC. 2. REGULATION OF INTERSTATE PRE-ARRANGED GROUND TRANSPORTATION 
              SERVICE.

    Section 14501 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Pre-Arranged Ground Transportation.--
        ``(1) In general.--No State or political subdivision thereof 
    and no interstate agency or other political agency of 2 or more 
    States shall enact or enforce any law, rule, regulation, standard 
    or other provision having the force and effect of law requiring a 
    license or fee on account of the fact that a motor vehicle is 
    providing pre-arranged ground transportation service if the motor 
    carrier providing such service--
            ``(A) meets all applicable registration requirements under 
        chapter 139 for the interstate transportation of passengers;
            ``(B) meets all applicable vehicle and intrastate passenger 
        licensing requirements of the State or States in which the 
        motor carrier is domiciled or registered to do business; and
            ``(C) is providing such service pursuant to a contract 
        for--
                ``(i) transportation by the motor carrier from one 
            State, including intermediate stops, to a destination in 
            another State; or
                ``(ii) transportation by the motor carrier from one 
            State, including intermediate stops in another State, to a 
            destination in the original State.
        ``(2) Intermediate stop defined.--In this section, the term 
    `intermediate stop', with respect to transportation by a motor 
    carrier, means a pause in the transportation in order for one or 
    more passengers to engage in personal or business activity, but 
    only if the driver providing the transportation to such passenger 
    or passengers does not, before resuming the transportation of such 
    passenger (or at least 1 of such passengers), provide 
    transportation to any other person not included among the 
    passengers being transported when the pause began.
        ``(3) Matters not covered.--Nothing in this subsection shall be 
    construed--
            ``(A) as subjecting taxicab service to regulation under 
        chapter 135 or section 31138;
            ``(B) as prohibiting or restricting an airport, train, or 
        bus terminal operator from contracting to provide preferential 
        access or facilities to one or more providers of pre-arranged 
        ground transportation service; and
            ``(C) as restricting the right of any State or political 
        subdivision of a State to require, in a nondiscriminatory 
        manner, that any individual operating a vehicle providing 
        prearranged ground transportation service originating in the 
        State or political subdivision have submitted to pre-licensing 
        drug testing or a criminal background investigation of the 
        records of the State in which the operator is domiciled, by the 
        State or political subdivision by which the operator is 
        licensed to provide such service, or by the motor carrier 
        providing such service, as a condition of providing such 
        service.''.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 13102 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended--
        (1) by redesignating paragraphs (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), 
    and (22) as paragraphs (18), (19), (21), (22), (23), and (24), 
    respectively;
        (2) by inserting after paragraph (16) the following:
        ``(17) Pre-arranged ground transportation service.--The term 
    `pre-arranged ground transportation service' means transportation 
    for a passenger (or a group of passengers) that is arranged in 
    advance (or is operated on a regular route or between specified 
    points) and is provided in a motor vehicle with a seating capacity 
    not exceeding 15 passengers (including the driver).''; and
        (3) by inserting after paragraph (19) (as so redesignated) the 
    following:
        ``(20) Taxicab service.--The term `taxicab service' means 
    passenger transportation in a motor vehicle having a capacity of 
    not more than 8 passengers (including the driver), not operated on 
    a regular route or between specified places, and that--
            ``(A) is licensed as a taxicab by a State or a local 
        jurisdiction; or
            ``(B) is offered by a person that--
                ``(i) provides local transportation for a fare 
            determined (except with respect to transportation to or 
            from airports) primarily on the basis of the distance 
            traveled; and
                ``(ii) does not primarily provide transportation to or 
            from airports.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
        (1) Motor carrier transportation.--Section 13506(a)(2) of title 
    49, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
        ``(2) a motor vehicle providing taxicab service;''.
        (2) Minimum financial responsibility.--Section 31138(e)(2) of 
    such title is amended to read as follows:
        ``(2) providing taxicab service (as defined in section 
    13102);''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.