The Senate Wednesday passed a bill that exempts livestock haulers from compliance with the electronic logging device mandate for another year, allowing them to run on paper logs until the end of September 2019.
However, the measure still has hurdles to clear before becoming final. Though the House has taken up a similar extension, it has not yet passed the bill to which it is attached. The two chambers, once the House passes its bill, will need to confer to iron out differences between the two pieces of legislation. Both chambers will then need to pass the bills again. President Trump must also sign the legislation, but he has threatened to veto appropriations packages coming out of Congress if they don’t include funding for a wall along the U.S.’ southern border.
Legislators have just two months to finalize 2019 appropriations packages to ward off a government shutdown. Livestockers are currently exempt from ELD compliance through September 2018.