[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1380 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1380

 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that on-duty time 
  does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for 
  certain commercial motor vehicle operators, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2013

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that on-duty time 
  does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for 
  certain commercial motor vehicle operators, 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 ``Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. WAITING TIME EXCEPTION.

    (a) Definition of Covered Operator.--In this section, the term 
``covered operator'' means the operator of a commercial motor vehicle 
transporting supplies, equipment, or materials (including produced 
fluids, drilling and completion fluids, and any other fluids or 
materials used in the drilling, completion, and production of an oil or 
gas well) to or from a natural gas or oil well site.
    (b) Exception.--The Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that 
the exception described in section 395.1(d)(2) of title 49, Code of 
Federal Regulations (relating to on-duty time not including waiting 
time at a natural gas or oil well site) applies to covered operators 
regardless of whether the operators have received special training or 
operate vehicles specially constructed to service wells.
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