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To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation requiring certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed limiting devices, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill prohibits the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from issuing any rule or regulation requiring commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed limiting devices. The prohibition applies broadly to any requirement for speed limiters set to a maximum speed on trucks and commercial vehicles.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (R-MT)
9 cosponsors
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC)
- Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] (R-ND)
- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (R-UT)
- Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH] (R-OH)
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] (R-SD)
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT)
Actions (2)
- May 8, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. · senate
- May 8, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 8, 2025
Mr. Daines (for himself, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Lee, Mr. Budd, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation requiring certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed limiting devices, 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 “Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act” or the “DRIVE Act”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING SPEED LIMITING DEVICES.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may not issue any rule or promulgate any regulation to require a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in section 390.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation)) to be equipped with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed. <all>
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