Longtitle: | To abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission, to amend subtitle IV of title 49, United States Code, to reform economic regulation of transportation, and for other purposes. |
Enacted By: | 104th |
Effective Date: | December 29, 1995 |
Leghisturl: | https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/2539 |
Introducedin: | House |
Introducedby: | Bud Shuster |
Introduceddate: | October 26, 1995 |
Committees: | House Transportation and Infrastructure |
Passedbody1: | House |
Passeddate1: | November 14, 1995 |
Passedvote1: | 417-8 |
Passedbody2: | Senate |
Passeddate2: | November 28, 1995 |
Passedvote2: | voice vote |
Conferencedate: | December 18, 1995 |
Passedbody3: | Senate |
Passeddate3: | December 21, 1995 |
Passedvote3: | voice vote |
Passedbody4: | House |
Passeddate4: | December 22, 1995 |
Passedvote4: | without objection |
Signedpresident: | Bill Clinton |
Signeddate: | December 29, 1995 |
The ICC Termination Act of 1995 is a United States federal law enacted in 1995 that abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission and simultaneously created its successor agency, the Surface Transportation Board.[1] [2]
On December 1, 2020, Oklahoma City federal judge Charles B. Goodwin referred to this Act when he declared unconstitutional a 2019 State of Oklahoma law preventing trains from blocking streets for longer than 10 minutes; declaring, in part:[3]