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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5532 

To improve the Compliance, Safety, Accountability initiative of the Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 

Mr. BARLETTA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To improve the Compliance, Safety, Accountability initiative 

of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safer Trucks and 

5 Buses Act of 2014’’. 

6 SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE, SAFETY, ACCOUNTABILITY INITIA7 TIVE. 

8 (a) DATA AVAILABILITY AND USE.— 


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1 (1) AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary of Trans2 portation shall ensure that covered motor carrier 

3 data is not made available to the public. 

4 (2) USE.—Covered motor carrier data may not 

5 be admitted into evidence or otherwise used in a civil 

6 action for damages resulting from an incident involv7 ing a motor carrier. 

8 (3) TERMINATION.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) 

9 shall cease to have effect on the date on which the 

10 Secretary submits to Congress the report required 

11 under subsection (d). 

12 (b) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 

13 the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub14 mit to Congress a report that contains recommendations 

15 on how to improve the Compliance, Safety, Accountability 

16 initiative of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administra17 tion, including recommendations to ensure that the initia18 tive— 

19 (1) utilizes and generates only safety data and 

20 scores, including Safety Measurement System scores, 

21 determined to be predictive of motor carrier acci22 dents; 

23 (2) appropriately addresses concerns relating to 

24 the age of utilized safety data, including violations; 


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1 (3) does not unfairly harm small motor carriers 

2 as a result of limited safety data availability; 

3 (4) appropriately addresses differences between 

4 motor carriers transporting passengers and motor 

5 carriers transporting freight; 

6 (5) generates safety data that allows individual 

7 motor carriers, including safety scores assigned to 

8 individual motor carriers, to be effectively compared; 

9 and 

10 (6) utilizes accurate safety data, including— 

11 (A) by appropriately addressing variations 

12 between State- and self-reported data; 

13 (B) by accounting for geographic dispari14 ties with respect to enforcement; and 

15 (C) by utilizing only crash data from 

16 crashes with respect to which a motor carrier 

17 was at fault. 

18 (c) IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not 

19 later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary 

20 submits to Congress the report required under subsection 

21 (b), the Secretary shall begin implementing the rec22 ommendations included in that report. 

23 (d) CERTIFICATION OF IMPLEMENTATION.—Not 

24 later than 1 year after the date on which the Secretary 

25 begins implementing recommendations under subsection 


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1 (c), the Secretary shall complete the implementation of 

2 such recommendations and shall submit to Congress a re3 port that— 

4 (1) describes the implementation of such rec5 ommendations; 

6 (2) contains a document in which the Secretary 

7 certifies that such implementation is complete; and 

8 (3) contains a document in which the Inspector 

9 General of the Department of Transportation cer10 tifies that such implementation is complete. 

11 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi12 nitions apply: 

13 (1) COVERED MOTOR CARRIER DATA.—The 

14 term ‘‘covered motor carrier data’’ means data gen15 erated with respect to a motor carrier under the 

16 Compliance, Safety, Accountability initiative of the 

17 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in18 cluding any ranking, rating, score, or other measure19 ment. 

20 (2) MOTOR CARRIER.—The term ‘‘motor car21 rier’’ has the meaning given that term in section 

22 13102 of title 49, United States Code. 

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