S. 3475 

One Hundred Eighteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four 

An Act 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow the Secretary of Transportation 

to designate an authorized operator of the commercial driver’s license information 

system, 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 ‘‘Strengthening the Commercial 

Driver’s License Information System Act’’. 

SEC. 2. COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE INFORMATION SYSTEM. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 31309 of title 49, United States Code, 

is amended— 

(1) in subsection (a)— 

(A) in the first sentence— 

(i) by inserting ‘‘(referred to in this section as 

the ‘Secretary’)’’ after ‘‘Secretary of Transportation’’; 

and 

(ii) by inserting ‘‘(referred to in this section as 

the ‘information system’)’’ after ‘‘an information 

system’’; and 

(B) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘information’’ 

before ‘‘system’’; 

(2) in subsection (b)— 

(A) in paragraph (1)— 

(i) by striking ‘‘(1) At a minimum, the information 

system under this section’’ and inserting the following: 

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—At a minimum, the information system’’; 

and 

(ii) by indenting subparagraphs (A) through (F) 

appropriately; and 

(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘(2) The information 

system under this section’’ and inserting the following: 

‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT.—The information system’’; 

(3) in subsection (e)— 

(A) in paragraph (1)— 

(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 

striking ‘‘under this section’’; and 

(ii) in subparagraph (E), by inserting ‘‘information’’ 

after ‘‘of the’’; 

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘commercial driver’s’’; 

and 

(C) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘under this section’’; 

(4) in subsection (f)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘section 31313(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (a)(2) and (b) of section 31313’’; and 

(B) by striking ‘‘section 31313’’ and inserting ‘‘that 

section’’; 

(5) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections 

(f) and (g), respectively; and 

(6) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following: 

‘‘(d) AUTHORIZED OPERATOR.—The Secretary may authorize a 

qualified entity (referred to in this section as the ‘authorized operator’)— 

‘‘(1) to operate, maintain, develop, modernize, and enhance 

the information system; and 

‘‘(2) to collect fees on behalf of the Secretary in accordance 

with subsection (e); and 

‘‘(3) to use any fees collected in accordance with that subsection. 

‘‘(e) FEE SYSTEM.— 

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or the authorized operator, as applicable, may charge a reasonable fee for use of 

the information system. 

‘‘(2) AMOUNT OF FEES.—The total amount of fees collected 

under this subsection shall equal, as nearly as possible, the 

total amount necessary for the purposes and uses described 

in paragraph (3)(B). 

‘‘(3) USE OF FEES.—Fees collected under this subsection 

shall— 

‘‘(A) be credited to— 

‘‘(i) an appropriation account; or 

‘‘(ii) an account designated by the authorized operator; and 

‘‘(B) be available only for the purposes of operating, 

maintaining, developing, modernizing, or enhancing, or any 

other use relating to, the information system, including 

for personnel and administration costs relating to the 

information system. 

‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Fees collected under this 

subsection shall remain available until expended for a purpose 

or use described in paragraph (3)(B). 

‘‘(5) AUTHORIZED OPERATOR.—If the Secretary designates 

an authorized operator under subsection (d)— 

‘‘(A) the Secretary shall not be charged a fee for access 

to, use of, or data in the information system; and 

‘‘(B) the Secretary shall have access to fee statements 

on a quarterly basis.’’. 
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 31311(a)(21) of title 49, 

United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘By the date established 

by the Secretary under section 31309(e)(4), the State shall be operating’’ and inserting ‘‘The State shall operate’’. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.