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(b) STATE REPORTING
OF CONVICTIONS.—Section 
31311(a) is amended by adding after paragraph (21) the 
following: 
‘‘(22) The State shall report a conviction of a 
foreign commercial driver by that State to the Federal 
Convictions and Withdrawal Database, or another in-
formation system designated by the Secretary to 
record the convictions. A report shall include— 
‘‘(A) for a driver holding a foreign commer-
cial driver’s license— 
‘‘(i) each conviction relating to the op-
eration of a commercial motor vehicle; and 
‘‘(ii) a non-commercial motor vehicle; 
and 
‘‘(B) for an unlicensed driver or a driver 
holding a foreign non-commercial driver’s li-
cense, each conviction for operating a commer-
cial motor vehicle.’’. 
SEC. 32206. AUTHORITY TO DISQUALIFY FOREIGN COMMER-
CIAL DRIVERS. 
Section 31310 is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(k) FOREIGN
COMMERCIAL
DRIVERS.—A foreign 
commercial driver shall be subject to disqualification under 
this section.’’.
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SEC. 32207. REVOCATION OF FOREIGN MOTOR CARRIER OP-
ERATING AUTHORITY FOR FAILURE TO PAY 
CIVIL PENALTIES. 
Section 13905(d)(2), as amended by section 32103(a) 
of this Act, is amended by inserting ‘‘foreign motor carrier, 
foreign motor private carrier,’’ after ‘‘registration of a 
motor carrier,’’ each place it appears. 
SEC. 32208. RENTAL TRUCK ACCIDENT STUDY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) RENTAL TRUCK.—The term ‘‘rental truck’’ 
means a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rat-
ing of between 10,000 and 26,000 pounds that is 
made available for rental by a rental truck company. 
(2) RENTAL TRUCK COMPANY.—The term ‘‘rental 
truck company’’ means a person or company that is 
in the business of renting or leasing rental trucks to 
the public or for private use. 
(b) STUDY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall conduct a 
study of the safety of rental trucks during the 7-year 
period ending on December 31, 2011. 
(2) 
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
study 
conducted 
under paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) evaluate available data on the number 
of crashes, fatalities, and injuries involving rent-
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al trucks and the cause of such crashes, utilizing 
police accident reports and other sources; 
(B) estimate the property damage and costs 
resulting from a subset of crashes involving rent-
al truck operations, which the Secretary believes 
adequately reflect all crashes involving rental 
trucks; 
(C) analyze State and local laws regulating 
rental truck companies, including safety and in-
spection requirements; 
(D) assess the rental truck maintenance 
programs of a selection of small, medium, and 
large rental truck companies, as selected by the 
Secretary, including the frequency of rental truck 
maintenance inspections, and compare such pro-
grams with inspection requirements for pas-
senger vehicles and commercial motor vehicles; 
(E) include any other information available 
regarding the safety of rental trucks; and 
(F) review any other information that the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a re-
port to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation of the Senate and the Committee on Transpor-
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tation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 
that contains— 
(1) the findings of the study conducted pursuant 
to subsection (b); and 
(2) any recommendations for legislation that the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
Subtitle C—Driver Safety 
SEC. 32301. ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDING DEVICES. 
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Section 31137 is amend-
ed— 
(1) by amending the section heading to read as 
follows: 
‘‘§ 31137. Electronic on-board recording devices and 
brake maintenance regulations’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection 
(e); and 
(3) by amending (a) to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDING DEVICES.— 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the 
Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 
2012, the Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regu-
lations— 
‘‘(1) requiring a commercial motor vehicle in-
volved in interstate commerce and operated by a driv-
er subject to the hours of service and the record of
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duty status requirements under part 395 of title 49, 
Code of Federal Regulations, be equipped with an 
electronic on-board recording device to improve com-
pliance by an operator of a vehicle with hours of serv-
ice regulations prescribed by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(2) ensuring that an electronic on-board record-
ing device is not used to harass a vehicle operator. 
‘‘(b) ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDING DEVICE RE-
QUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The regulations prescribed 
under subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(A) require an electronic on-board record-
ing device— 
‘‘(i) to accurately record commercial 
driver hours of service; 
‘‘(ii) to record the location of a com-
mercial motor vehicle; 
‘‘(iii) to be tamper resistant; and 
‘‘(iv) to be integrally synchronized 
with an engine’s control module; 
‘‘(B) allow law enforcement to access the 
data contained in the device during a roadside 
inspection; and 
‘‘(C) apply to a commercial motor vehicle 
beginning on the date that is 2 years after the
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date that the regulations are published as a final 
rule. 
‘‘(2) PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN STANDARDS.— 
The regulations prescribed under subsection (a) shall 
establish performance standards— 
‘‘(A) defining a standardized user interface 
to aid vehicle operator compliance and law en-
forcement review; 
‘‘(B) establishing a secure process for stand-
ardized— 
‘‘(i) and unique vehicle operator iden-
tification; 
‘‘(ii) data access; 
‘‘(iii) data transfer for vehicle opera-
tors between motor vehicles; 
‘‘(iv) data storage for a motor carrier; 
and 
‘‘(v) data transfer and transportability 
for law enforcement officials; 
‘‘(C) establishing a standard security level 
for an electronic on-board recording device and 
related components to be tamper resistant by 
using a methodology endorsed by a nationally 
recognized standards organization; and
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‘‘(D) identifying each driver subject to the 
hours of service and record of duty status re-
quirements under part 395 of title 49, Code of 
Federal Regulations. 
‘‘(c) CERTIFICATION CRITERIA.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary under this section shall establish the 
criteria and a process for the certification of an elec-
tronic on-board recording device to ensure that the de-
vice meets the performance requirements under this 
section. 
‘‘(2) EFFECT OF NONCERTIFICATION.—An elec-
tronic on-board recording device that is not certified 
in accordance with the certification process referred to 
in paragraph (1) shall not be acceptable evidence of 
hours of service and record of duty status require-
ments under part 395 of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
‘‘(d) ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDING DEVICE DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘electronic on-board re-
cording device’ means an electronic device that— 
‘‘(1) is capable of recording a driver’s hours of 
service and duty status accurately and automatically; 
and