INTERSTATE COMMERCE related term(s) Cargo Transportation

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: prevent States and local jurisdictions from interfering with the production and distribution of agricultural products in interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 4879), H628 [25JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: allow interstate sale of State-inspected meat and poultry (see S. 2814), S2623 [10MY]

Dept. of Transportation: issue regulations allowing qualified drivers under the age of 21 who complete a vehicle operation and mentor-apprentice training program to move freight across State lines (see S. 3352), S5692 [16AU] (see H.R. 5358), H1753 [21MR]

Firearms: implement a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and a record of sale system for those firearms (see S. 3002), S3034 [6JN] (see H.R. 6024), H4848 [6JN]

——— update certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions (see H.R. 6624), H7724 [26JY]

Information technology: preempt State and local encryption laws to ensure a uniform, national policy for the interstate issue of encryption technology (see H.R. 6044), H4980 [7JN]

Labeling: make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate labeling of products made in the U.S. and introduced in interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 4923), H782 [5FE]

Marketplace Fairness Act: declare enactment would harm the economy by creating an online sales tax that would create undue burden on small businesses and entrepreneurs and provide no benefit to States without sales taxes (see S. Res. 433), S1686 [13MR]

Taxation: regulate certain State impositions on interstate commerce by prohibiting imposition of sales taxes on individuals with no physical presence in the taxing State (see S. 3180), S4734 [28JN]

——— regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce (see H.R. 6978), H9405 [28SE]

Texas: include areas in the Central Texas Corridor as part of the Interstate Highway System (see H.R. 4823), H552 [18JA]

Tobacco products: prevent the sale of e-cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco to minors (see H.R. 7337), H10335 [19DE]

Letters

Dept. of Transportation preemption of State regulation of motor carrier meal and rest break rules: American Association for Justice, H3675 [26AP]

——— National Employment Law Project (organization), H3676 [26AP]

——— Samuel P. Loesche, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, H3675 [26AP]

——— several organizations, H3676 [26AP]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: prevent States and local jurisdictions from interfering with the production and distribution of agricultural products in interstate or foreign commerce, H3577 [26AP]

——— prohibit Federal interference in interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form for human consumption between States that allow the sale of such products, H4218, H4219 [18MY]

Dept. of Transportation: preempt State regulation of motor carrier meal and rest break rules, H3673–H3677 [26AP]

Remarks in Senate

Labeling: make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate labeling of products made in the U.S. and introduced in interstate or foreign commerce (S. 118), S5044 [18JY]

——— make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate labeling of products made in the U.S. and introduced in interstate or foreign commerce (S. 118), unanimous-consent request, S5043, S5044 [18JY]

Reports filed

Reinforcing American-Made Products Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 118) (S. Rept. 115–203), S612 [5FE]

Texts of

S. Res. 433, declare enactment of Marketplace Fairness Act would harm the economy by creating an online sales tax that would create undue burden on small businesses and entrepreneurs and provide no benefit to States without sales taxes, S1688 [13MR]