Title: HALT Drunk Driving Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Honoring Abbas Family Legacy to Terminate Drunk Driving Act or the HALT Drunk Driving Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard that requires a motor vehicle to be equipped with an advanced alcohol detection device that (1) determines the blood alcohol concentration of the operator of the vehicle, and (2) prevents the operation of the vehicle if the operator is legally intoxicated.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration must implement a program to equip the advanced alcohol detection devices on not less than 1,500 government-owned fleet vehicles by the end of FY2022.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4354 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4354

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle 
    safety standard requiring motor vehicles to be equipped with an 
 advanced alcohol detection device that prevents a vehicle from being 
    operated if the operator is intoxicated, to provide for a fleet 
         demonstration of such devices, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2019

 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Oversight and Reform, 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 motor vehicles to be equipped with an 
 advanced alcohol detection device that prevents a vehicle from being 
    operated if the operator is intoxicated, to provide for a fleet 
         demonstration of such devices, 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 ``Honoring Abbas Family Legacy to 
Terminate Drunk Driving Act'' or the ``HALT Drunk Driving Act''.

SEC. 2. ADVANCED ALCOHOL DETECTION DEVICES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than September 30, 2024, the Secretary 
of Transportation shall prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard under 
chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, that requires motor 
vehicles produced after the effective date of such standard to be 
equipped with an advanced alcohol detection device that--
            (1) determines the blood alcohol concentration of the 
        operator of the vehicle; and
            (2) if the blood alcohol concentration determined by the 
        device is equal to or greater than the blood alcohol 
        concentration specified in section 163(a) of title 23, United 
        States Code, prevents the vehicle from being operated.
    (b) Development.--The Secretary of Transportation shall work 
directly with motor vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and other 
interested parties, including universities with expertise in automotive 
engineering, to--
            (1) accelerate the development of the advanced alcohol 
        detection devices described in subsection (a);
            (2) ensure the integration of such devices into motor 
        vehicles available for sale at the earliest practical date; and
            (3) ensure the creation of market demand for such devices.
    (c) Fleet Demonstration.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2022, the 
        Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
        Administration shall enter into an agreement with the 
        Administrator of General Services to carry out a program to 
        equip the advanced alcohol detection devices described in 
        subsection (a) on not less than 1,500 covered fleet vehicles 
        (as defined in section 241 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
        7581)) owned or operated by an agency, department, or 
        instrumentality of the United States.
            (2) Requirement.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
        Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
        Administration shall ensure that fleet vehicles--
                    (A) are driven not less than 3 days per week; and
                    (B) are located in various regions in the United 
                States.
            (3) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated $25,000,000 to carry out this subsection.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``motor vehicle'' and 
``motor vehicle safety standard'' have the meanings given such terms in 
section 30102 of title 49, United States Code.
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