terrupt or otherwise affect the civil service status or privi-
leges of the Federal employee. 
(j) PAYMENT
AND EXPENSES.—Members of the 
Council shall serve without pay, except travel and per diem 
will be paid each member for meetings called by the Sec-
retary. 
(k) TERMINATION.—The Council shall terminate 6 
years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(l) DEFINITIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In this section— 
(A) the term ‘‘automated driving system’’ 
means the hardware and software that are col-
lectively capable of performing the entire dy-
namic driving task on a sustained basis, regard-
less of whether such system is limited to a spe-
cific operational design domain; 
(B) the term ‘‘dynamic driving task’’ 
means all of the real time operational and tac-
tical functions required to operate a vehicle in 
on-road traffic, excluding the strategic func-
tions such as trip scheduling and selection of 
destinations and waypoints, and including— 
(i) lateral vehicle motion control via 
steering; 
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(ii) longitudinal vehicle motion control 
via acceleration and deceleration; 
(iii) monitoring the driving environ-
ment via object and event detection, rec-
ognition, classification, and response prep-
aration; 
(iv) object and event response execu-
tion; 
(v) maneuver planning; and 
(vi) enhancing conspicuity via light-
ing, signaling, and gesturing; 
(C) the term ‘‘highly automated vehicle’’— 
(i) means a motor vehicle equipped 
with an automated driving system; and 
(ii) does not include a commercial 
motor vehicle (as defined in section 31101 
of title 49, United States Code); and 
(D) the term ‘‘operational design domain’’ 
means the specific conditions under which a 
given driving automation system or feature 
thereof is designed to function. 
(2) REVISIONS TO CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.— 
(A) If SAE International (or its successor 
organization) revises the definition of any of the 
terms defined in subparagraph (A), (B), or (D) 
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of paragraph (1) in Recommended Practice Re-
port J3016, it shall notify the Secretary of the 
revision. The Secretary shall publish a notice in 
the Federal Register to inform the public of the 
new definition unless, within 90 days after re-
ceiving notice of the new definition and after 
opening a period for public comment on the 
new definition, the Secretary notifies SAE 
International (or its successor organization) 
that the Secretary has determined that the new 
definition does not meet the need for motor ve-
hicle safety, or is otherwise inconsistent with 
the purposes of chapter 301 of title 49, United 
States Code. If the Secretary so notifies SAE 
International (or its successor organization), 
the existing definition in paragraph (1) shall re-
main in effect. 
(B) If the Secretary does not reject a defi-
nition revised by SAE International (or its suc-
cessor organization) as described in subpara-
graph (A), the Secretary shall promptly make 
any conforming amendments to the regulations 
and standards of the Secretary that are nec-
essary. The revised definition shall apply for 
purposes of this section. The requirements of 
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section 553 of title 5, United States Code, shall 
not apply to the making of any such conforming 
amendments. 
(C) Pursuant to section 553 of title 5, 
United States Code, the Secretary may update 
any of the definitions in subparagraph (A), (B), 
or (D) of paragraph (1) if the Secretary deter-
mines that materially changed circumstances 
regarding highly automated vehicles have im-
pacted motor vehicle safety such that the defini-
tions need to be updated to reflect such cir-
cumstances. 
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