Hazardous Materials Transportation and Independent Safety Board Amendments of 1980
Latest action. Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #611 (162-247).
(Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 96-942 (Part II)) Hazardous Materials Transportation and Independent Safety Board Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with a private entity for the use of a supplemental reporting system and data center to provide specified individuals with information concerning the transportation of hazardous materials. Amends the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs that such sums shall remain available until expended. Directs that National Transportation Safety Board accident investigations (other than those concerning specified railroad accidents and major marine casualties) shall have priority over all other investigations of such accidents conducted by other Federal agencies. Includes aviation incidents under requirements binding on persons reporting such incidents subject to the Board's investigatory jurisdiction. Specifies that any properly credentialed employee of the Board, in investigating a transportation accident, may take custody of any materials determined to be required for the purpose of the investigation.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Reported to House amended, Part II" stage on May 16, 1980. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on October 1, 1980: Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #611 (162-247).
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
JAMES FLORIO (D-NJ) introduced it on April 22, 1980, and 1 member has since signed on as a cosponsor.
They are 1 Democrat.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · October 1, 1980
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached