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Introduced Session

A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate standards and regulations requiring all new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with technology to limit maximum operating speed, to require existing speed-limiting technologies already installed in certain commercial motor vehicles to be used while in operation, and to require that maximum safe operating speed of commercial motor vehicles shall not exceed 65 miles per hour. This bill directs the Department of Transportation to implement regulations to require (1) all new commercial motor vehicles with a gross weight of 26,001 pounds or more to be equipped with speed-limiting technology, (2) any existing speed-limiting technology already installed in such vehicles to be used while in operation, and (3) the speed-limiting technology to be set to a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour.

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Johnny Isakson (R)*,  Chris Coons (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (on 06/27/2019)

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