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

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

Progress

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IntroducedJul 25, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
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; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Jul 25, 2003
R-NC	Howard Coble	Original	Jul 25, 2003
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.	Original	Jul 25, 2003
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald	Original	Jul 25, 2003
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Jul 25, 2003
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Jul 25, 2003
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 5, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Sep 5, 2003
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		Sep 5, 2003
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Sep 5, 2003
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Sep 5, 2003
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 5, 2003
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 17, 2003
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Sep 17, 2003
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 17, 2003
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Sep 17, 2003
R-OK	Ernest J. Istook Jr.		Sep 29, 2003
R-OK	John Sullivan		Sep 29, 2003
R-NV	Jon C. Porter		Sep 29, 2003
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 29, 2003
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Sep 29, 2003
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Oct 10, 2003
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Oct 10, 2003
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Oct 10, 2003
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Oct 29, 2003
D-IN	Julia Carson		Oct 29, 2003
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Oct 29, 2003
D-PA	Tim Holden		Oct 29, 2003
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Nov 6, 2003
R-NE	Doug Bereuter		Nov 6, 2003
R-NY	Jack Quinn		Nov 6, 2003
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Nov 6, 2003
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Nov 6, 2003
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Nov 6, 2003
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Nov 6, 2003
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Dec 8, 2003
R-SC	Jim DeMint		Jan 28, 2004
R-NC	Robin Hayes		Feb 24, 2004
D-CA	Bob Filner		Mar 3, 2004
R-IN	Chris Chocola		Mar 3, 2004
R-MI	Peter Hoekstra		Mar 3, 2004
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Mar 4, 2004
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Mar 23, 2004
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Mar 23, 2004

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Transportation and Infrastructure Committee	Referred Jul 25, 2003
	Highways and Transit Subcommittee	Referred Jul 28, 2003

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

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

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to improved consumer protection regulation of the household goods transportation industry, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Consumer's Relocation Protection Act of 2003

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 25, 2003Introduced in House

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