[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2671 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2671

   To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
    Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation 
requiring certain vehicles to be equipped with speed limiting devices, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2023

Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Thune, Mr. Lee, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Wicker, 
and Mr. Rounds) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
    Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation 
requiring certain 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 vehicles with a gross vehicle 
weight of more than 26,000 pounds operating in interstate commerce to 
be equipped with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed.
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