Recodification of the employee protection provision of the
Surface Transportation Assistance Act
Editor's note: In the summer of 1994, Congress passed
legislation "to restate in comprehensive form, without
substantive change, certain general and permanent laws relating
to transportation ... and to make other
technical improvement in [Title 49 of the United States]
Code." H.R. Rep. No. 180, 103d Cong.,
2d Sess. 1 (1994), reprinted in 1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. 818.
Included in this recodification is the employee protection
provision of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act. Formerly, this provision was codified at 49
U.S.C. app. § 2305. After
recodification, the provision is codified at 49 U.S.C. §
31105.
According to the Section-By-Section Summary, the recodification
resulted in the elimination or
changing of several words and phrases considered surplus or
unclear. See H.R. Rep. No. 180,
103d Cong., 2d Sess. 191-192 (1994), reprinted in 1994
U.S.C.C.A.N. 818, 1008-1009. The
legislative history, however, makes it clear that the substantive
law is intended to remain unchanged.
H.R. Rep. No. 180, 103d Cong., 2d Sess. 5 (1994), reprinted
in 1994 U.S.C.C.A.N. 818,
822.
