A bill to amend title 49 of the United States Code to prohibit an organization of rail carriers from engaging in any joint action which results in a rate increase, and to require rail carriers proposing seasonal or peak-period demand rates to demonstrate that such rates will not result in overall increased freight costs to affected shippers.

Summary

Prohibits an organization of rail carriers from engaging in any joint action which results in a rate increase unless shippers are notified and given an opportunity to comment on the increases before they are filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Requires any rail carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission to balance any proposed rate increase based on seasonal or peak-period demand for rail services with an appropriately reduced off-peak rate so that the net result is that no person who ships or receives goods year-round will be subjected to a fare increase.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 8 March 1979

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.