[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7204 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7204

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Transportation to establish sanctions and penalties applicable to an 
 employer whenever an employee of the employer is convicted of driving 
  an over-the-road bus under the influence of alcohol or a controlled 
 substance while acting within the scope of the employee's employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2008

   Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Transportation to establish sanctions and penalties applicable to an 
 employer whenever an employee of the employer is convicted of driving 
  an over-the-road bus under the influence of alcohol or a controlled 
 substance while acting within the scope of the employee's employment.

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

SECTION 1. SANCTIONS APPLICABLE TO EMPLOYERS OF OVER-THE-ROAD BUS 
              DRIVERS CONVICTED OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE.

    Section 31310 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(j) Sanctions Applicable to Employers of Over-the-Road Bus 
Drivers Convicted of Driving Under the Influence.--
            ``(1) Sanctions.--The Secretary shall issue regulations 
        establishing sanctions and penalties applicable to an employer 
        whenever an employee of the employer is convicted of driving an 
        over-the-road bus under the influence of alcohol or a 
        controlled substance while acting within the scope of the 
        employee's employment.
            ``(2) Minimum requirements.--The regulations issued under 
        paragraph (1) shall require, at a minimum, that an employer 
        described in paragraph (1) be subject for each offense, upon 
        conviction, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed one year 
        or a fine under title 18, or both.
            ``(3) Over-the-road bus defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term `over-the-road bus' means a commercial motor vehicle 
        providing intercity, fixed-route over-the-road service or other 
        over-the-road service, as such terms are defined in section 
        3038(a) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century 
        (49 U.S.C. 5310 note; 112 Stat. 392).''.
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