NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Transportation: enhance underride protection on trailers, semitrailers, and single unit trucks and improve motor carrier, passenger motor vehicle, and vulnerable road user safety (see S. 3775), S489 [4FE] (see H.R. 7354), H2030 [4FE]

——— initiate process to reevaluate corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards (see S. 4908), S3201 [24JN]

——— reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2050 (see S. Res. 753), S2444 [21MY] (see H. Res. 1316), H3724 [21MY]

EMS and First Responder Wellness Grant Program: establish (see S. 4819), S2893 [17JN] (see H.R. 10116), H5244 [17AU]

Government regulations: establish minimum standards for how autonomous vehicle operators work with emergency responders (see H.R. 10033), H5212 [3AU]

——— require each new electric and hybrid vehicle to be equipped with technology that allows timely extinguishment of electric vehicle battery fire (see H.R. 6948), H11 [6JA]

——— require each new motor vehicle to be equipped with manual door release allowing timely exit regardless of failure of any electrical system (see H.R. 6947), H11 [6JA]

Motor vehicles: eliminate corporate average fuel economy standards (see S. 5092), S4231 [22JY]

Safety: clarify authority over vehicles with automated driving systems to provide safety measures for such vehicles (see H.R. 7390), H2040 [5FE]

——— conduct study relative to motor vehicle flammability hazards (see H.R. 8444), H3067 [22AP]

——— modernize motor vehicle safety programs (see H.R. 7389), H2040 [5FE]

——— require that all new covered motorcoaches have minimally obstructed forward-facing view from driver’s seat (see H.R. 7263), H1915 [27JA]

Remarks in House

Government regulations: require each new electric and hybrid vehicle to be equipped with technology that allows timely extinguishment of electric vehicle battery fire (H.R. 6948), H142 [8JA]

Radio: issue rule requiring access to AM broadcast stations in motor vehicles (H.R. 979), H3511 [14MY]

Remarks in Senate

Radio: issue rule requiring access to AM broadcast stations in motor vehicles (S. 315), S2098 [29AP], S2510 [3JN]

Texts of

S. Res. 753, reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2050, S2447 [21MY]