[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 170 (Wednesday, November 18, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S8106]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2815. Mr. WICKER (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2812 proposed by Ms. 
Collins (for herself and Mr. Reed) to the bill H.R. 2577, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; as follows:

       Beginning on page 45, strike line 16 and all that follows 
     through line 9 on page 46 and insert the following:
       Sec. 137.  The Secretary of Transportation may promulgate a 
     rulemaking to increase the minimum length limitation that a 
     State may prescribe for a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer 
     combination under section 31111(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United 
     States Code, from 28 feet to 33 feet if the Secretary makes a 
     statistically significant finding, based on the final 
     Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Limits Study required 
     under section 32801 of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety 
     Enhancement Act of 2012 (title II of division C of Public Law 
     112-141), that such change would not have a net negative 
     impact on public safety.
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