I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9471 
To require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to implement 
a national employer notification service. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself, Mr. LAWLER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, 
and Ms. TOKUDA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 
to implement a national employer notification service. 
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 ‘‘Miranda Vargas School 
Bus Driver Red Flag Act’’ or ‘‘Miranda’s Law’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL EMPLOYER NOTIFICATION SERVICE. 
(a) EMPLOYER NOTIFICATION SERVICE DEFINED.— 
In this Act, the term ‘‘employer notification service’’ 
means a service that automatically furnishes an employer 
with a report on the change in the status of the driving 
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record or driver’s license of an employee who has a com-
mercial driver’s license due to a conviction for a moving 
violation, a failure to appear, an accident, driver’s license 
suspension, driver’s license revocation, or any other action 
taken against the driving privilege. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL EMPLOYER NO-
TIFICATION SERVICE.— 
(1) REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Transportation, acting through the Federal 
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, shall issue a 
final regulation requiring the implementation of a 
national employer notification service that States 
may access. 
(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—Before issuing such 
final regulation requiring the implementation of a 
national employer notification service, the Secretary 
shall consider— 
(A) the recommendations made by the 
American Association of Motor Vehicle Admin-
istrators (AAMVA), including recommendations 
on annual per driver fees for participating em-
ployers, in its report, ‘‘Employer Notification 
System Design & Best Practices Recommenda-
tions’’, produced for the Federal Motor Carrier 
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Safety Administration under grant/cooperative 
agreement number FMCDL–0143–13–01–03; 
and 
(B) the results of a pilot program con-
ducted in 2007 under section 4022 of the 
Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century 
(Public Law 105–178), to assess the feasibility, 
costs, safety impacts, and benefits of such a 
system, and to assess methods for efficient ex-
change of driver safety data from existing State 
systems. 
SEC. 3. STATE IMPLEMENTATION. 
(a) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 2 years after 
the Secretary has issued a final regulation requiring the 
implementation of a national employer notification service, 
each State shall use such service to notify employers with 
a report described in section 2(a). 
(b) ENFORCEMENT.—After the 2-year period de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that 
the national employer notification service described in this 
section is included as part of the requirements and stand-
ards of the commercial driver license program, including 
the consequences of noncompliance, set forth in part 384 
of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations. 
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(c) EMPLOYER
COMPLIANCE
AND
ALLOWABLE 
GRANT COST.—Included in developing the final regulation 
under section 2(a), the Secretary shall— 
(1) require any employer who has 1 or more 
employees who holds a commercial driver’s license 
with a school bus endorsement, pursuant to section 
383.123 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to 
participate in the employer notification service; and 
(2) ensure that State implementation of the em-
ployer notification service is an allowable cost for 
commercial driver’s license program implementation 
grant awards under section 31313 of title 49, 
United States Code. 
(d) ANNUAL INQUIRY EXEMPTION.—In keeping with 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulatory 
guidance set forth on page 13069 of volume 80 of the Fed-
eral Register, the Secretary shall ensure that employers 
participating in the employer notification service are ex-
empt from the requirements for annual inquiry and review 
of driving record, pursuant to part 391.25 of title 49, 
Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY TO SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DIS-
TRICTS. 
For purposes of this Act, a school district, local edu-
cational agency, or school shall be considered an ‘‘em-
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ployer’’ for purposes of the national employer notification 
service if it organizes, sponsors, or pays for the transpor-
tation of preprimary, primary, and secondary students to 
or from school or on extracurricular trips. In the case of 
a school district, local educational agency, or school that 
pays a private company or proprietorship to provide trans-
portation services for students traveling to or from school 
or on a extracurricular trip, both the private company or 
proprietorship and the school district, local educational 
agency, or school shall be considered ‘‘employers’’ for pur-
poses of the national employer notification service. 
SEC. 5. SIMULTANEOUS DRIVER NOTIFICATION. 
Included in developing the final regulation under sec-
tion 2(a), the Secretary shall ensure that whenever the 
national employer notification service furnishes an em-
ployer with a report on an employee, such employee shall 
receive simultaneous notification and a copy of the report. 
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