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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7357 

To establish within the Department of Transportation an Assistant Secretary 

of Automated Mobility and to direct such Assistant Secretary to submit 

to Congress a report on automated vehicles, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 20, 2018 

Mr. LIPINSKI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 

such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To establish within the Department of Transportation an 

Assistant Secretary of Automated Mobility and to direct 

such Assistant Secretary to submit to Congress a report 

on automated vehicles, 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 ‘‘Automated Mobility 

5 Act of 2018’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF 

2 AUTOMATED MOBILITY. 

3 Section 102 of title 49, United States Code, is 

4 amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (e)(1)— 

6 (A) by striking ‘‘6’’ and inserting ‘‘7’’; 

7 (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

8 ‘‘and’’; 

9 (C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the 

10 period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

11 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(E) an Assistant Secretary for Automated 

13 Mobility, who shall be appointed by the Presi14 dent, with the advice and consent of the Sen15 ate.’’; and 

16 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(i) ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AUTOMATED MOBIL18 ITY.—The Assistant Secretary of Automated Mobility ap19 pointed under subsection (e)(1) shall do the following: 

20 ‘‘(1) Coordinate Federal agency efforts to test 

21 and deploy automated vehicles. 

22 ‘‘(2) Develop incident response and investiga23 tion capabilities for incidents involving automated 

24 vehicles and determine the types of data needed to 

25 understand the control systems involved in such inci26 dents. 


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1 ‘‘(3) Provide technical assistance to recipients 

2 of Federal funding for projects to test and deploy 

3 automated vehicles. 

4 ‘‘(4) Coordinate efforts of the Department and 

5 the Federal Communications Commission to test and 

6 deploy standards and technology for interoperable 

7 vehicle-to-vehicle communication. 

8 ‘‘(5) Communicate how Federal agencies pro9 tect the privacy of data that is generated by auto10 mated vehicles. 

11 ‘‘(6) In coordination with the Department of 

12 Labor, promote the development of a workforce with 

13 expertise in automation and process management 

14 with respect to automated vehicles. 

15 ‘‘(7) Promote a consistent regulatory frame16 work among State and local governments to support 

17 the integration of automated vehicles. 

18 ‘‘(8) Submit annually a report to the Com19 mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

20 House of Representatives and the Committee on 

21 Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen22 ate describing the efforts of the Assistant Secretary 

23 under this subsection.’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. POLICY ROADMAP. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

3 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transpor4 tation, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of 

5 Automated Mobility, shall submit to the Congress a 5-year 

6 plan to— 

7 (1) adapt Federal vehicle safety standards and 

8 infrastructure to accommodate automated vehicles; 

9 (2) review Federal funding programs for the 

10 interstate highway system and evaluate the readi11 ness of the Federal interstate highway system to ac12 commodate automated vehicles; 

13 (3) establish a framework for automated vehicle 

14 safety assurance; 

15 (4) develop uniform standards for and proce16 dures to test automated vehicles and automated 

17 driving software; 

18 (5) adapt existing safety oversight authority 

19 and enforcement capabilities to accommodate auto20 mated vehicles; 

21 (6) develop standards for vehicle-to-vehicle and 

22 vehicle-to-infrastructure communication; 

23 (7) protect the privacy of data of consumers 

24 who use automated vehicles; 

25 (8) protect automated vehicles and passengers 

26 of such vehicles from cybersecurity threats; 


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1 (9) provide education to the human operators of 

2 vehicles; 

3 (10) develop an insurance framework for auto4 mated vehicles with interstate flexibility; 

5 (11) collaborate with the private sector and aca6 demia on research and development initiatives re7 lated to automated vehicles; 

8 (12) support the growth of the automated mo9 bility industry in the United States; 

10 (13) coordinate with other Federal agencies to 

11 review measures available to promote American in12 dustrial leadership in automated vehicle technology; 

13 and 

14 (14) reduce the negative effects of automated 

15 vehicle technology on employment markets in the 

16 United States. 

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