[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4095 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4095

To direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct 
a rulemaking regarding the use of aspheric outside mirrors on passenger 
                     cars, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 6, 2007

 Mr. Hoekstra introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct 
a rulemaking regarding the use of aspheric outside mirrors on passenger 
                     cars, 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 ``Aspheric Outside Rearview Mirror 
Timely Assessment Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. RULEMAKING RELATING TO USE ASPHERIC OUTSIDE REARVIEW MIRRORS.

    (a) Rulemaking Required.--The National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration shall conduct a rulemaking to amend the section 571.111 
of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, pertaining to rearview 
mirrors to determine whether to permit the use on passenger cars of 
aspheric mirrors as outside rearview mirrors.
    (b) Schedule.--
            (1) Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking.--The 
        Administrator may issue an advanced notice of proposed 
        rulemaking within 30 days of the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Proposed rule.--The Administrator shall issue a 
        proposed rule within 115 days of the date of enactment of this 
        Act.
            (3) Final rule.--The Administrator shall issue a final rule 
        within 255 days of the date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of the rulemaking required by this 
Act--
            (1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
        the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator of the United 
        States Department of Transportation.
            (2) the term ``aspheric mirror'' means a mirror in which 
        the outermost edge, comprising not more than one-third of the 
        surface of the mirror, is aspherical, that is, having a surface 
        which has a constant radius only in one plane, and such mirror 
        contains a line of demarcation marking the transition of the 
        reflecting surface from the convex portion to the aspherical 
        portion.
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