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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 2819

Introduced

DRIVE Act

Sponsor
RJosh Brecheen· Oklahoma
Introduced
April 10, 2025
Policy area
Transportation and Public Works
Latest action
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.April 10, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2819 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2819

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

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 10, 2025

Mr. Brecheen (for himself, Mr. Bost, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Ogles, Ms. 
Hageman, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. Finstad, Mr. Nunn of Iowa, Mr. 
Van Orden, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. 
Zinke, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Babin, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Valadao, Mr. 
Sessions, and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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A BILL

To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration from issuing a rule or 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 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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