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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3374 
To improve the safety of individuals by taking measures to end drunk driving. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2017 
Miss RICE of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve the safety of individuals by taking measures 
to end drunk driving. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End Drunk Driving 
Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities represent 
approximately one-third of all highway fatalities in 
the United States in a given year. 
(2) First offenders were responsible for 75 per-
cent of drunk driving arrests and 25 percent were 
from repeat offenders. 
(3) In 2013, there were 10,076 alcohol-im-
paired driving fatalities in the United States. 
(4) The National Highway Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration has partnered with automobile manu-
facturers to develop alcohol detection technologies 
that may be installed in vehicles to prevent drunk 
driving. 
(5) 
An 
estimated 
59,000 
lives 
and 
$343,000,000,000 may be saved over a 15-year pe-
riod by the widespread installation of alcohol detec-
tion technologies in motor vehicles. 
SEC. 3. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO END DRUNK DRIVING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 10 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue 
a final rule prescribing or amending a Federal motor vehi-
cle safety standard that would prevent operation of a 
motor vehicle when the operator is under the influence of 
alcohol. The standard— 
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(1) shall prevent the operation of the motor ve-
hicle if the operator’s blood alcohol content is above 
the legal limit; and 
(2) shall require such technology to be— 
(A) reliable and accurate; 
(B) set at the legal limit; 
(C) unobtrusive and fast; 
(D) tamper-proof/circumvention-resistant; 
(E) functionary in extreme environments 
(both hot and cold); and 
(F) easily maintained. 
SEC. 4. FUNDING AND PLANS FOR DRIVER ALCOHOL DE-
TECTION SYSTEM FOR SAFETY RESEARCH. 
Section 403(h) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(2) FUNDING.—To carry out this subsection, 
the Secretary shall obligate from funds made avail-
able to carry out this section— 
‘‘(A) $12,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2018 and 2019; 
‘‘(B) $16,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2020 and 2021; and 
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‘‘(C) $20,000,000 for each of years 2022 
through 2027.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
subparagraph (C); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following: 
‘‘(B) outlines the Administration’s plans to 
expedite research and development of this tech-
nology; and’’. 
SEC. 5. USE OF IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES TO PRE-
VENT REPEAT INTOXICATED DRIVING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 1 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 171. Use of ignition interlock devices to prevent re-
peat intoxicated driving 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) ALCOHOL
CONCENTRATION.—The term 
‘alcohol concentration’ means grams of alcohol per 
100 milliliters of blood or grams of alcohol per 210 
liters of breath. 
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