DRIVE Act

Bill: 119-s-1696
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-05-08
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2025-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-05-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act or the DRIVE Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) from issuing any rule or regulation to require a commercial motor vehicle to be equipped with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed.&nbsp;The&nbsp;FMCSA issued an advance notice of supplemental proposed rulemaking on this subject on May 4, 2022.</p><p>A commercial motor vehicle includes a vehicle operating in interstate commerce that&nbsp;(1) has a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more, (2) is designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers&nbsp;for compensation,  (3) is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers and is not used to transport passengers for compensation, or (4) is used to transport certain quantities of hazardous materials.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1696 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 8, 2025 Mr. Daines (for himself, Ms. Ernst , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Sheehy , Mr. Lee , Mr. Budd , Mr. Risch , and Mr. Crapo ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILL To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation requiring certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed limiting devices, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act or the DRIVE Act . 2. Prohibition on requiring speed limiting devices Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may not issue any rule or promulgate any regulation to require a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in section 390.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation)) to be equipped with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed.