I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5884 
To prohibit the replacement of the gasoline excise tax with a GPS, location 
or distance-based tax and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2014 
Mr. STOCKMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Ways and Means and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit the replacement of the gasoline excise tax with 
a GPS, location or distance-based tax and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Don’t Track Me Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Tracking the location of vehicles and the 
identities of owners for the purpose of taxation, fines 
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or fees has the potential to be misused, and such 
collected data could be hacked or used for privacy- 
invading purposes. 
(2) Government and corporate websites are fre-
quently hacked, and driver-tracking databases may 
be no more invulnerable to hacking; to the advan-
tage of criminals, stalkers, and identity thieves. 
(3) GPS tracking enables the technology for 
automatic speeding, parking and other traffic tick-
ets, charging variable tax rates due to the time of 
day or other factors, including characterizing driving 
behavior from acceleration and braking speed, eva-
sive maneuvers such as swerving to avoid a child or 
deer in the road, or driving in what the Government 
may believe is a ‘‘fuel-wasting’’ manner. 
(4) GPS tracking schemes may require vehicle 
owners to maintain bank accounts for the debiting 
of resultant fees. This may be a hardship for many 
low-income vehicle owners, as well as opening new 
hacking vulnerabilities for bank accounts of vehicle 
owners. 
(5) The existing gas tax is a rare example of a 
user fee, whereby vehicle owners pay for the roads 
they use when purchasing fuel. The tax has success-
fully provided necessary funding for many decades. 
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(6) There are far less intrusive ways than loca-
tion-based tracking to get electric vehicle and hybrid 
owners to pay for their road usage. 
(7) Vehicle owners must not be required to sur-
render their Fourth Amendment rights and be 
tracked everywhere as a condition of driving on pub-
lic roads. 
(8) Amendment IV of the United States Con-
stitution states ‘‘The right of the people to be secure 
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against 
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio-
lated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon prob-
able cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and 
particularly describing the place to be searched, and 
the persons or things to be seized.’’. 
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this Act to pro-
hibit the replacement or supplementation of the Federal 
gasoline excise tax with any tax or fee based upon vehicle 
location or distance traveled, whether determined by global 
positioning satellite (GPS), license plate reading cameras 
or any other method of determining owner registration or 
identity information, and vehicle location or distance trav-
eled. 
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SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF A GPS, LOCATION OR MILEAGE 
BASED TAX. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It is contrary to the public policy 
of the United States to require the placement or use of 
any GPS, location, distance tracking system, or any other 
system to collect identities of vehicle owners by any remote 
means such as license plate reading cameras, radio fre-
quency identification (RFID) devices or by any other 
means. 
(b) The Federal gasoline excise tax may not be re-
placed or supplemented with any tax, fee or fine based 
upon vehicle location or distance traveled, whether deter-
mined by global positioning satellite (GPS), cameras that 
read license plates or any other method of determining ve-
hicle location, distance traveled or registration and iden-
tity data. 
(c) No motor vehicle may be required to have any 
device on board the vehicle or to transmit data to any off 
board device which tracks or records, collects, stores, 
transmits and location, distance, or registration or driver 
identity information. 
SEC. 4. LIMITATIONS ON VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHI-
CLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE 
COMMUNICA-
TIONS. 
(a) No public funds may be used to study or imple-
ment or require the use of any method of tracking or re-
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porting vehicle movement or location for the purpose of 
taxes, user fees, traffic fines, accident investigation, or to 
communicate with other vehicles or infrastructure. 
(b) Vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure 
communication systems for the purposes of recording or 
transmitting or storing for later retrieval location, reg-
istration, identity, or speed data are prohibited, except for 
those vehicles owned or leased by Federal Government 
agencies in question. 
(c) Any such transmissions may only be used for mo-
mentary accident avoidance or completely anonymized 
traffic reporting. 
SEC. 5. ‘‘BLACK BOX’’ DATA RECORDERS. 
No motor vehicle shall be required by any Federal 
agency to have installed and operational any ‘‘black box’’ 
accident data recorder that records any vehicle data for 
a period longer than the last five minutes of vehicle oper-
ation, and such devices may never be capable of recording 
audio, images, or video from inside the vehicle. Any such 
device may not broadcast or transmit any data in any way, 
except by a direct cable connection to a computer. 
SEC. 6. VEHICLE OWNERS EXEMPTED. 
No provisions of this Act shall prohibit the use by 
vehicle owners of GPS or other technologies for tracking 
the location of their own vehicle. 
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SEC. 7. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
The Secretary of the Department of Transportation 
shall submit to Congress, not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, a report describing the 
actions taken to ensure permanent compliance with this 
Act. 
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