[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6850 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6850

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or 
import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain standards 
   for drunk and impaired driving prevention, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2025

 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or 
import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain standards 
   for drunk and impaired driving prevention, 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 ``Deployment of Required Impairment 
Prevention Vehicle Equipment to Honor the Abbas Family Legacy to 
Terminate Drunk Driving Act of 2025'' or the ``DRIVE to HALT Drunk 
Driving Act''.

SEC. 2. DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 30129 the following:
``Sec. 30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention
    ``(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this section, a covered manufacturer shall not manufacture 
for sale, sell, offer for sale, introduce or deliver for introduction 
in interstate commerce, or import into the United States less than--
            ``(1) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per calendar year 
        that meet the performance specifications of the DADSS Subsystem 
        Performance Specification Document; and
            ``(2) 10,000 passenger motor vehicles per calendar year 
        that comply with section 3.5.1 through 3.5.4.4 of the European 
        New Car Assessment Programme version 10.3 (published December 
        2023).
    ``(b) Revised or New Standard.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), not 
        later than 120 days after the European New Car Assessment 
        Programme revises the standard described in subsection (a)(2) 
        or a subsequent standard, such revised standards shall replace 
        the standard described in subsection (a)(2).
            ``(2) Determination.--The Secretary, after publishing a 
        notice in the Federal Register and allowing for a period of 
        public comment and review, may make a determination that the 
        revised standard described in paragraph (1) does not meet the 
        need for motor vehicle safety.
            ``(3) Effect.--Should the Secretary make a determination 
        that the revised standard described in paragraph (1) does not 
        meet the need for motor vehicle safety pursuant to paragraph 
        (2), the revised or new standards shall not replace the 
        standard described in subsection (a)(2).
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Covered manufacturer.--The term `covered 
        manufacturer' means a manufacturer that, in the second most 
        recent calendar year, manufactured for sale, sold, offered for 
        sale, introduced or delivered for introduction in interstate 
        commerce, or imported into the United States more than 250,000 
        motor vehicles.
            ``(2) Passenger motor vehicle.--The term `passenger motor 
        vehicle' means a motor vehicle that is not a commercial motor 
        vehicle (as defined in section 31101).
    ``(d) Sunset.--The requirements of this section shall expire upon 
the effective date of the rule required under section 24220 of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (49 U.S.C. 30111 note).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for subchapter II of chapter 
301 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 30129 the following:

``30130. Drunk and impaired driving prevention.''.
    (c) Civil Penalties.--Section 30165(a)(1) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting 
``30130(a),'' after ``30127,''.
    (d) Amendments to Title 49, United States Code.--Section 
30102(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(I) `motor vehicle safety standard' means--
                            ``(i) a minimum standard for motor vehicle 
                        or motor vehicle equipment performance; and
                            ``(ii) a requirement described in section 
                        30130(a).''.
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