US Congress Senate Bill 3271 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on April 28 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-05-19 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Vehicle Event History Information Capturing Leads to Engineering Safety Improvements Act of 2010 or VEHICLE Safety Improvements Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to promulgate regulations to require: (1) each new light-, medium-, and heavy-duty motor vehicle manufactured for sale or lease in the United States to be equipped with an event data recorder (EDR) meeting certain requirements; and (2) any data stored in the EDR of such vehicles to be accessible and retrievable by a commercially available universal data reader. Requires the owner's manual of new motor vehicles to indicate clearly the presence of EDRs. Prohibits the retrieval of information recorded or transmitted by an EDR by any person other than the owner of the motor vehicle in which such device is installed, unless: (1) a court authorizes it, the owner consents, or the information is retrieved by a government motor vehicle safety agency; and (2) neither the personally identifiable information of the vehicle owner or driver nor the vehicle identification number (VIN) is disclosed in the retrieval of information.

Vehicle Event History Information Capturing Leads to Engineering Safety Improvements Act of 2010

Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-05-19		Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held.
2010-04-28		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2010-04-28		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2761)

HB5169 (Related) 2010-04-28 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
HB5345 (Related) 2010-05-19 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/3271/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s3271/BILLS-111s3271is.pdf