[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3421 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3421

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Transportation to establish a database of exemptions for motor vehicles 
    from the Federal motor vehicle safety standards, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2017

Mr. Bucshon (for himself and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Transportation to establish a database of exemptions for motor vehicles 
    from the Federal motor vehicle safety standards, 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 ``Increasing Information and 
Notification to Foster Openness Regarding Highly Automated Vehicle 
Matters to States Act'' or the ``INFORM Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION DATABASE.

    Section 30113 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(i) Exemption Database.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a 
        publically available and searchable electronic database of each 
        motor vehicle for which an exemption from motor vehicle safety 
        standards prescribed under this chapter or a bumper standard 
        prescribed under chapter 325 has been granted.
            ``(2) Vehicle identification number.--The database 
        established under paragraph (1) shall be searchable by Vehicle 
        Identification Number and shall include no information 
        identifying the vehicle owner.''.
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