HR 2928 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Consumer's Relocation Protection Act of 2003

Introduced Jul 25, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Sherwood Boehlert R-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 28, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJul 25, 2003
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Consumer's Relocation Protection Act of 2003 - Authorizes States to exercise authority over motor carriers that engage in the intrastate transportation of household goods. Authorizes a State attorney general to bring a civil action against such a carrier in U.S. district court for injunctive relief and for a civil penalty.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) prescribe practices and procedures that ensure the fair and equitable treatment of individual shippers that utilize brokers of household goods; (2) establish a working group of State attorneys general, State consumer protection administrators, and Federal and local law enforcement officials; (3) establish a complaint handling system to log individual shipper informal complaints, an annual complaint database, and a procedure for public access to such data; and (4) require an annual report from each motor carrier and freight forwarder providing household goods transportation.

Establishes civil and criminal penalties for holding household goods hostage (defined as refusing to relinquish a shipment upon payment of not more than 100 percent of a binding estimate for shipment plus the charges for additional services performed). Sets additional requirements for registration of motor carriers of household goods.

Requires every motor carrier providing transportation of household goods to: (1) conduct a physical survey of the goods to be transported and provide the shipper with a written estimate of charges; and (2) prepare a written inventory of all articles tendered by an individual shipper and accepted by the carrier.

Sets civil penalties for brokers violating this Act.

Cosponsors 44

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 25, 2003 to Mar 23, 2004, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalJul 25, 2003
R-NCHoward CobleOriginalJul 25, 2003
R-TNJohn J. Duncan, Jr.OriginalJul 25, 2003
D-CAJuanita Millender-McDonaldOriginalJul 25, 2003
D-MEMichael H. MichaudOriginalJul 25, 2003
D-CAZoe LofgrenOriginalJul 25, 2003
D-NYCharles B. RangelSep 5, 2003
D-MDElijah E. CummingsSep 5, 2003
R-VAJo Ann DavisSep 5, 2003
R-CTRob SimmonsSep 5, 2003
R-WVShelley Moore CapitoSep 5, 2003
R-NCWalter B. JonesSep 5, 2003
R-PABill ShusterSep 17, 2003
D-NYGary L. AckermanSep 17, 2003
D-ORPeter A. DeFazioSep 17, 2003
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 28, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
  2. Jul 25, 2003Introduced in House
  3. Jul 25, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.

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