[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5499 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5499

 To provide a definition of reasonable rate for noncontiguous domestic 
                  ocean trade, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2019

   Mr. Case introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide a definition of reasonable rate for noncontiguous domestic 
                  ocean trade, 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 ``Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable 
Rate Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. NONCONTIGUOUS DOMESTIC OCEAN TRADE.

    Section 13701(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following new paragraph:
            ``(1) In general.--For purposes of this section, a rate is 
        reasonable if such rate is within 10 percent of a rate set by a 
        comparable international ocean rate index recognized by the 
        Federal Maritime Commission.''.
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