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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7357 
To establish within the Department of Transportation an Assistant Secretary 
of Automated Mobility and to direct such Assistant Secretary to submit 
to Congress a report on automated vehicles, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 20, 2018 
Mr. LIPINSKI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Finan-
cial Services, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish within the Department of Transportation an 
Assistant Secretary of Automated Mobility and to direct 
such Assistant Secretary to submit to Congress a report 
on automated vehicles, 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 ‘‘Automated Mobility 
Act of 2018’’. 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF 
AUTOMATED MOBILITY. 
Section 102 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (e)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘6’’ and inserting ‘‘7’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) an Assistant Secretary for Automated 
Mobility, who shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent, with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AUTOMATED MOBIL-
ITY.—The Assistant Secretary of Automated Mobility ap-
pointed under subsection (e)(1) shall do the following: 
‘‘(1) Coordinate Federal agency efforts to test 
and deploy automated vehicles. 
‘‘(2) Develop incident response and investiga-
tion capabilities for incidents involving automated 
vehicles and determine the types of data needed to 
understand the control systems involved in such inci-
dents. 
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‘‘(3) Provide technical assistance to recipients 
of Federal funding for projects to test and deploy 
automated vehicles. 
‘‘(4) Coordinate efforts of the Department and 
the Federal Communications Commission to test and 
deploy standards and technology for interoperable 
vehicle-to-vehicle communication. 
‘‘(5) Communicate how Federal agencies pro-
tect the privacy of data that is generated by auto-
mated vehicles. 
‘‘(6) In coordination with the Department of 
Labor, promote the development of a workforce with 
expertise in automation and process management 
with respect to automated vehicles. 
‘‘(7) Promote a consistent regulatory frame-
work among State and local governments to support 
the integration of automated vehicles. 
‘‘(8) Submit annually a report to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen-
ate describing the efforts of the Assistant Secretary 
under this subsection.’’. 
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SEC. 3. POLICY ROADMAP. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of 
Automated Mobility, shall submit to the Congress a 5-year 
plan to— 
(1) adapt Federal vehicle safety standards and 
infrastructure to accommodate automated vehicles; 
(2) review Federal funding programs for the 
interstate highway system and evaluate the readi-
ness of the Federal interstate highway system to ac-
commodate automated vehicles; 
(3) establish a framework for automated vehicle 
safety assurance; 
(4) develop uniform standards for and proce-
dures to test automated vehicles and automated 
driving software; 
(5) adapt existing safety oversight authority 
and enforcement capabilities to accommodate auto-
mated vehicles; 
(6) develop standards for vehicle-to-vehicle and 
vehicle-to-infrastructure communication; 
(7) protect the privacy of data of consumers 
who use automated vehicles; 
(8) protect automated vehicles and passengers 
of such vehicles from cybersecurity threats; 
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(9) provide education to the human operators of 
vehicles; 
(10) develop an insurance framework for auto-
mated vehicles with interstate flexibility; 
(11) collaborate with the private sector and aca-
demia on research and development initiatives re-
lated to automated vehicles; 
(12) support the growth of the automated mo-
bility industry in the United States; 
(13) coordinate with other Federal agencies to 
review measures available to promote American in-
dustrial leadership in automated vehicle technology; 
and 
(14) reduce the negative effects of automated 
vehicle technology on employment markets in the 
United States. 
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