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
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.
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 Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act
or the DRIVE Act
.
Sec. 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.