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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5423 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the use of predatory 
commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase programs by certain motor car-
riers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 
Ms. BROWNLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the use 
of predatory commercial motor vehicle lease-purchase 
programs by certain motor carriers, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Predatory Truck Leas-
ing Prevention Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
PROHIBITION 
ON 
PREDATORY 
COMMERCIAL 
MOTOR VEHICLE LEASE-PURCHASE AGREE-
MENT PROGRAMS. 
Section 14102 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) PROHIBITION
ON PREDATORY COMMERCIAL 
MOTOR VEHICLE LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT PRO-
GRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Sec-
retary shall promulgate regulations to prohibit the 
use of predatory commercial motor vehicle lease-pur-
chase programs by motor carriers providing trans-
portation subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I 
of chapter 135. 
‘‘(2) RELIEF PROVISION.—In promulgating reg-
ulations pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary 
shall establish a process by which drivers can be 
granted relief from the terms of a lease-purchase 
agreement if— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary finds that the terms of 
the lease-purchase agreement violated regula-
tions issued pursuant to paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(B) the lease-purchase agreement was en-
tered into after the effective date of the regula-
tions issued pursuant to paragraph (1). 
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‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) PREDATORY COMMERCIAL MOTOR VE-
HICLE
LEASE-PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
PRO-
GRAM.—The term ‘predatory commercial motor 
vehicle 
lease-purchase 
agreement 
program’ 
means the framework of motor carrier-driver 
relationship, including the lease-purchase agree-
ment, the contract for the driver’s work for the 
motor carrier, and the motor carrier’s practices 
in implementing the contracts that are not pro-
vided in the contract, including the motor car-
rier’s recruitment practices, operational prac-
tices, and tax and finance practices, whereby 
the motor carrier controls the work, compensa-
tion, and debts of the driver, and the driver ac-
crues no equity or is forced to give up equity 
accrued in the contracted truck. 
‘‘(B) LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENT.—The 
term ‘lease-purchase agreement’ means a finan-
cial contract by which a driver leases a commer-
cial motor vehicle from a motor carrier (or a 
firm affiliated with such motor carrier) to haul 
freight while driving for the same motor carrier 
under a separate contract.’’. 
Æ 
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