Miranda’s Law
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill defines an employer notification service as a system that automatically reports to an employer changes in a commercial driver's driving record or license status due to moving violations, failures to appear, accidents, suspensions, revocations, or other actions against driving privileges. Within one year, the Secretary of Transportation through FMCSA must issue a final rule implementing a national employer notification service accessible to states, considering AAMVA recommendations and a 2007 pilot on feasibility, costs, safety impacts, and data exchange. Within two years after the final rule, each state must use the service to notify employers. The service becomes part of commercial-driver-license program requirements and standards under 49 C.F.R. part 384. Employers with employees holding a school bus endorsement must participate. State implementation is an allowable CDL program implementation grant cost. Participating employers are exempt from annual driving-record inquiry and review requirements, and drivers must receive simultaneous notification and a copy of any report sent to an employer.
Who Benefits and How
School bus employers, trucking employers, and other CDL employers benefit from automatic safety-status updates and relief from separate annual driving-record inquiry requirements. States benefit because implementation can be funded through CDL program implementation grants. Commercial drivers benefit from simultaneous notice and copies of reports sent to their employers.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FMCSA must issue and oversee the final regulation, incorporate the service into CDL standards, and account for AAMVA recommendations and the 2007 pilot. States must connect to and use the national service within two years. School bus employers must participate, and CDL employers using the service may pay participation fees and adjust compliance systems.
Key Provisions
- Requires FMCSA within one year to issue a final rule creating a national employer notification service for CDL status changes.
- Requires each state to use the service within two years after the final rule and adds it to CDL program standards and noncompliance consequences.
- Requires employers of CDL holders with school bus endorsements to participate in the notification service.
- Makes state implementation an allowable CDL grant cost and exempts participating employers from annual driving-record inquiry and review requirements.
- Requires simultaneous driver notification and a copy of any report furnished to an employer.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires FMCSA to create a national employer notification service for commercial-driver-license status changes, requires states to use it, mandates participation by school-bus CDL employers, allows CDL grant funding for implementation, and gives drivers simultaneous notice of employer reports.
Key Policy Areas
Transportation, Public Safety, Labor
Primary Purpose
Requires FMCSA to create a national employer notification service for commercial-driver-license status changes, requires states to use it, mandates participation by school-bus CDL employers, allows CDL grant funding for implementation, and gives drivers simultaneous notice of employer reports.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- School bus employers
- CDL employers
- Commercial drivers
- States
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Identified Costs
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- States
- School bus employers
- CDL employers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Mr. Gottheimer (for himself and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
CDL employers, School bus employers
CDL employers faces effects in multiple directions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "aamva"
- → American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
- "fmcsa"
- → Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Transportation
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A service that automatically furnishes employers reports of CDL driving-record or license-status changes.
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