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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. 
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 ‘‘Safer Trucks and 
Buses Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE, SAFETY, ACCOUNTABILITY INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) DATA AVAILABILITY AND USE.— 
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(1) AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary of Trans-
portation shall ensure that covered motor carrier 
data is not made available to the public. 
(2) USE.—Covered motor carrier data may not 
be admitted into evidence or otherwise used in a civil 
action for damages resulting from an incident involv-
ing a motor carrier. 
(3) TERMINATION.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) 
shall cease to have effect on the date on which the 
Secretary submits to Congress the report required 
under subsection (d). 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to Congress a report that contains recommendations 
on how to improve the Compliance, Safety, Accountability 
initiative of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administra-
tion, including recommendations to ensure that the initia-
tive— 
(1) utilizes and generates only safety data and 
scores, including Safety Measurement System scores, 
determined to be predictive of motor carrier acci-
dents; 
(2) appropriately addresses concerns relating to 
the age of utilized safety data, including violations; 
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(3) does not unfairly harm small motor carriers 
as a result of limited safety data availability; 
(4) appropriately addresses differences between 
motor carriers transporting passengers and motor 
carriers transporting freight; 
(5) generates safety data that allows individual 
motor carriers, including safety scores assigned to 
individual motor carriers, to be effectively compared; 
and 
(6) utilizes accurate safety data, including— 
(A) by appropriately addressing variations 
between State- and self-reported data; 
(B) by accounting for geographic dispari-
ties with respect to enforcement; and 
(C) by utilizing only crash data from 
crashes with respect to which a motor carrier 
was at fault. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not 
later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary 
submits to Congress the report required under subsection 
(b), the Secretary shall begin implementing the rec-
ommendations included in that report. 
(d) CERTIFICATION
OF
IMPLEMENTATION.—Not 
later than 1 year after the date on which the Secretary 
begins implementing recommendations under subsection 
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(c), the Secretary shall complete the implementation of 
such recommendations and shall submit to Congress a re-
port that— 
(1) describes the implementation of such rec-
ommendations; 
(2) contains a document in which the Secretary 
certifies that such implementation is complete; and 
(3) contains a document in which the Inspector 
General of the Department of Transportation cer-
tifies that such implementation is complete. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) COVERED
MOTOR
CARRIER
DATA.—The 
term ‘‘covered motor carrier data’’ means data gen-
erated with respect to a motor carrier under the 
Compliance, Safety, Accountability initiative of the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in-
cluding any ranking, rating, score, or other measure-
ment. 
(2) MOTOR CARRIER.—The term ‘‘motor car-
rier’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
13102 of title 49, United States Code. 
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