Title: Safe Roads Act of 2019
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Safe Roads Act of 2019
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to implement motor vehicle safety standards that (1) require new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with an automatic emergency braking system, (2) establish performance requirements for such braking systems, and (3) require such systems to be used while the commercial vehicles are in operation.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3773

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle 
safety standard requiring new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped 
   with an automatic emergency braking system, to require automatic 
  emergency braking installed in commercial motor vehicles to be used 
              while in operation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2019

 Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, and Mrs. 
 Watson Coleman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to 
 the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle 
safety standard requiring new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped 
   with an automatic emergency braking system, to require automatic 
  emergency braking installed in commercial motor vehicles to be used 
              while in operation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Roads Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARD.

    (a) Motor Vehicle Safety Standard.--Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall--
            (1) prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard under section 
        30111 of title 49, United States Code, that requires all 
        commercial motor vehicles manufactured after the effective date 
        of the standard to be equipped with an automatic emergency 
        braking system; and
            (2) include standards that establish the performance 
        requirements for automatic emergency braking systems.
    (b) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulation.--Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall prescribe a regulation under section 31136 of 
title 49, United States Code, that requires an automatic emergency 
braking system installed in any commercial motor vehicle in operation 
on or after the effective date shall be used at any time during which 
the commercial motor vehicle is in operation.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Automatic emergency braking system.--The term 
        ``automatic emergency braking system'' means a system on a 
        commercial motor vehicle that, based on a predefined distance 
        and closing rate with respect to an obstacle in the path of the 
        vehicle--
                    (A) alerts the driver of the obstacle; and
                    (B) if necessary to avoid or mitigate a collision 
                with the obstacle, automatically applies the brakes of 
                the vehicle.
            (2) Commercial motor vehicle.--The term ``commercial motor 
        vehicle'' has the meaning given such term in section 31132 of 
        title 49, United States Code.
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