I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6518 
To require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to implement 
a national employer notification service. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2018 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself, Mr. FASO, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
KILDEE, Mrs. LOVE, Mr. SIRES, and Mr. SUOZZI) introduced the fol-
lowing 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 
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with a report on the change in the status of the driving 
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-
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tions’’, produced for the Federal Motor Carrier 
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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