ICC Termination Act of 1995 |
| Long title | 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. |
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| Enacted by | the 104th United States Congress |
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| Effective | December 29, 1995 |
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| Public law | Pub. L. 104–88 (text) (PDF) |
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| Statutes at Large | 109 Stat. 183 |
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- Introduced in the House by Bud Shuster (R‑PA 9th) on October 26, 1995
- Committee consideration by House Transportation and Infrastructure
- Passed the House on November 14, 1995 (417-8)
- Passed the Senate on November 28, 1995 (voice vote)
- Reported by the joint conference committee on December 18, 1995; agreed to by the Senate on December 21, 1995 (voice vote) and by the House on December 22, 1995 (without objection)
- Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 29, 1995
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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]
. . . a state or local government can address grade-level railroad crossing issues in a manner that does not run afoul of federal law . . . But a statute that tells railroad companies how long they may stop their trains — for whatever ends — intrudes on the territory reserved to the ICCTA.
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