Drunk Driving Prevention and Enforcement Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Drunk Driving Prevention and Enforcement Act creates three major programs. First, DOT through NHTSA must run a competitive prize program for consumer-ready passive anti-drunk-driving technology, with a prize purse of at least 45 million dollars and a 50 million dollar Highway Trust Fund authorization available until fiscal year 2028. The prize targets breath-based, touch-based, sensor, or other in-vehicle technology that prevents a driver at or above the legal blood alcohol limit from operating a vehicle. Second, DOT must establish a Traffic Safety Enforcement Center of Excellence within one year to provide state highway safety offices and law enforcement agencies with centralized expertise, training, data tools, hot-spot detection, drug-impaired enforcement strategies, speed management, model demonstrations, technical assistance, and national convening. The center receives 5 million dollars per year from fiscal year 2026 onward. Third, NHTSA must create a national drug-involved crash data collection system with standardized toxicology data, linked crash and medical records, model protocols, sentinel sites, annual public reports, state grants, possible non-federal match requirements, and a 30 million dollar annual authorization for fiscal years 2026 through 2031.
Who Benefits and How
Technology developers, vehicle safety researchers, state highway safety offices, law enforcement agencies, traffic safety researchers, victims and survivors, public health leaders, and road users benefit from prize incentives, technical assistance, better enforcement tools, and more complete drug-impaired crash data.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DOT and NHTSA staff must administer prize competitions, notices, reports, the Center of Excellence, training, data systems, model protocols, sentinel sites, state grants, privacy safeguards, and congressional reporting. State agencies and toxicology labs may need to collect standardized data, link records, provide non-federal matches unless hardship applies, and follow model protocols. Highway Trust Fund resources bear the authorizations.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes 50 million dollars for a passive anti-drunk-driving technology prize program with a prize purse of at least 45 million dollars.
- Requires DOT to establish a Traffic Safety Enforcement Center of Excellence within one year and authorizes 5 million dollars per year.
- Creates a national drug-involved crash data collection system with toxicology, medical, coroner, hospital, and EMS data links.
- Authorizes 30 million dollars per year from fiscal years 2026 through 2031 for drug-involved crash data grants and implementation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates federal prize, training-center, and crash-data programs to accelerate passive anti-drunk-driving technology and strengthen impaired-driving enforcement.
Key Policy Areas
Transportation, Law Enforcement, Technology, Public Health
Primary Purpose
Creates federal prize, training-center, and crash-data programs to accelerate passive anti-drunk-driving technology and strengthen impaired-driving enforcement.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- technology developers
- state highway safety offices
- law enforcement agencies
- traffic safety researchers
- road users
Identified Costs
- Department of Transportation staff
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration staff
- state agencies
- toxicology labs
- Highway Trust Fund
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Ms. Gillen (for herself, Mr. Lawler, and Mrs. Dingell) introduced …
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Transportation center staff, Highway Trust Fund resources, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data staff
road users exposed to drunk driving, road users protected by anti-drunk-driving technology, road users protected by impaired-driving prevention
state crash data agencies reporting toxicology data, state highway safety offices receiving technical assistance, state toxicology labs receiving grants
Positive-direction: state highway safety offices receiving technical assistance, state toxicology labs receiving grants
Negative-direction: state crash data agencies reporting toxicology data
anti-drunk-driving technology developers, technology developers described in findings
passenger vehicle manufacturers integrating safety technology
law enforcement agencies receiving traffic safety support
public health leaders participating in traffic safety convening
traffic safety researchers using drug crash data
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Secretary"
- → Secretary of Transportation
- "Administrator"
- → National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator
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