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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6850 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or 
import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain stand-
ards for drunk and impaired driving prevention, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2025 
Mrs. DINGELL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufac-
ture, sale, or import of a minimum number of motor 
vehicles that met certain standards for drunk and im-
paired driving prevention, 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 ‘‘Deployment of Re-
quired Impairment Prevention Vehicle Equipment to 
Honor the Abbas Family Legacy to Terminate Drunk 
Driving Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘DRIVE to HALT Drunk 
Driving Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 301 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 30129 
the following: 
‘‘§ 30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this section, a covered manufac-
turer shall not manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, 
introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate com-
merce, or import into the United States less than— 
‘‘(1) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per cal-
endar year that meet the performance specifications 
of the DADSS Subsystem Performance Specification 
Document; and 
‘‘(2) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per cal-
endar year that comply with section 3.5.1 through 
3.5.4.4 of the European New Car Assessment Pro-
gramme version 10.3 (published December 2023). 
‘‘(b) REVISED OR NEW STANDARD.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), not later than 120 days after the Euro-
pean New Car Assessment Programme revises the 
standard described in subsection (a)(2) or a subse-
quent standard, such revised standards shall replace 
the standard described in subsection (a)(2). 
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‘‘(2) DETERMINATION.—The Secretary, after 
publishing a notice in the Federal Register and al-
lowing for a period of public comment and review, 
may make a determination that the revised standard 
described in paragraph (1) does not meet the need 
for motor vehicle safety. 
‘‘(3) EFFECT.—Should the Secretary make a 
determination that the revised standard described in 
paragraph (1) does not meet the need for motor ve-
hicle safety pursuant to paragraph (2), the revised 
or new standards shall not replace the standard de-
scribed in subsection (a)(2). 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COVERED
MANUFACTURER.—The term 
‘covered manufacturer’ means a manufacturer that, 
in the second most recent calendar year, manufac-
tured for sale, sold, offered for sale, introduced or 
delivered for introduction in interstate commerce, or 
imported into the United States more than 250,000 
motor vehicles. 
‘‘(2) PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term 
‘passenger motor vehicle’ means a motor vehicle that 
is not a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in sec-
tion 31101). 
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‘‘(d) SUNSET.—The requirements of this section shall 
expire upon the effective date of the rule required under 
section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (49 U.S.C. 30111 note).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for sub-
chapter II of chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
30129 the following: 
‘‘30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention.’’. 
(c) CIVIL PENALTIES.—Section 30165(a)(1) of title 
49, United States Code, is amended, in the first sentence, 
by inserting ‘‘30130(a),’’ after ‘‘30127,’’. 
(d) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES 
CODE.—Section 30102(b)(1) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(I) 
‘motor 
vehicle 
safety 
standard’ 
means— 
‘‘(i) a minimum standard for motor 
vehicle or motor vehicle equipment per-
formance; and 
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