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DRIVE to HALT Drunk Driving Act
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain standards for drunk and impaired driving prevention, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill requires major automobile manufacturers to include drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in a minimum number of new vehicles each year. Covered manufacturers (those producing more than 250,000 vehicles annually) must produce at least 10,000 vehicles per year meeting DADSS safety specifications and 10,000 vehicles per year complying with European safety standards for impaired driving prevention. The bill allows European safety standards to be automatically updated when revised, unless the Secretary of Transportation determines a revised standard does not adequately serve motor vehicle safety. Civil penalties apply for manufacturers that fail to meet these requirements. These requirements would expire once a separate federal rulemaking on alcohol detection systems mandated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act becomes effective.
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- Dec 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Dec 18, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 18, 2025
Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain standards for drunk and impaired driving prevention, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Deployment of Required Impairment Prevention Vehicle Equipment to Honor the Abbas Family Legacy to Terminate Drunk Driving Act of 2025” or the “DRIVE to HALT Drunk Driving Act”.
SEC. 2. DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION.
(a) In General.—Chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 30129 the following: “Sec. 30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention
“(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, a covered manufacturer shall not manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce, or import into the United States less than—
“(1) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per calendar year that meet the performance specifications of the DADSS Subsystem Performance Specification Document; and
“(2) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per calendar year that comply with section 3.5.1 through 3.5.4.4 of the European New Car Assessment Programme version 10.3 (published December 2023).
“(b) Revised or New Standard.—
“(1) In general.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than 120 days after the European New Car Assessment Programme revises the standard described in subsection (a)(2) or a subsequent standard, such revised standards shall replace the standard described in subsection (a)(2).
“(2) Determination.—The Secretary, after publishing a notice in the Federal Register and allowing for a period of public comment and review, may make a determination that the revised standard described in paragraph (1) does not meet the need for motor vehicle safety.
“(3) Effect.—Should the Secretary make a determination that the revised standard described in paragraph (1) does not meet the need for motor vehicle safety pursuant to paragraph
(2), the revised or new standards shall not replace the standard described in subsection (a)(2).
“(c) Definitions.—In this section:
“(1) Covered manufacturer.—The term ‘covered manufacturer’ means a manufacturer that, in the second most recent calendar year, manufactured for sale, sold, offered for sale, introduced or delivered for introduction in interstate commerce, or imported into the United States more than 250,000 motor vehicles.
“(2) Passenger motor vehicle.—The term ‘passenger motor vehicle’ means a motor vehicle that is not a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in section 31101).
“(d) Sunset.—The requirements of this section shall expire upon the effective date of the rule required under section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (49 U.S.C. 30111 note).”.
(b) Clerical Amendment.—The analysis for subchapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 30129 the following:
“30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention.”.
(c) Civil Penalties.—Section 30165(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting “30130(a),” after “30127,”.
(d) Amendments to Title 49, United States Code.—Section 30102(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (G), by striking “and” at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(I) ‘motor vehicle safety standard’ means—
“(i) a minimum standard for motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment performance; and
“(ii) a requirement described in section 30130(a).”. <all>
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