Driver Privacy Act
Latest action · Sep 15, 2014 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 563.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 14, 2014
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Driver Privacy Act - Declares that any data retained by a motor vehicle's event data recorder (as defined in Department of Transportation [DOT] regulations) is the property of the owner or lessee of the motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed, regardless of when the vehicle was manufactured.
Prohibits a person, other than the owner or lessee of the motor vehicle, from accessing data recorded or transmitted by such a recorder unless: (1) a court or other judicial or administrative authority authorizes the retrieval of such data subject to admissibility of evidence standards; (2) an owner or lessee provides written or electronic consent to such retrieval for any purpose, including vehicle diagnosis, service, or repair; (3) the data is retrieved pursuant to certain authorized investigations or inspections of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) or DOT; (4) the data is retrieved to determine the appropriate emergency medical response to a motor vehicle crash; or (5) the data is retrieved for traffic safety research.
Prohibits, when data is retrieved in connection with traffic safety research or an NTSB or DOT investigation or inspection, the disclosure of: (1) personally identifiable information of the vehicle owner or lessee, and (2) the vehicle identification number (VIN). Provides an exemption from such prohibition to allow disclosure of VINs to certifying manufacturers.
Directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), after completing a study and submitting a report to Congress, to promulgate regulations concerning the amount of time event data recorders installed in passenger motor vehicles should capture and record vehicle-related data in conjunction with an event in order to provide sufficient information to investigate the cause of crashes.
Cosponsors 24
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 14, 2014 to Apr 29, 2014; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Al Franken | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| I-ME | Angus S. King Jr. | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-WV | Joe Manchin III | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-SD | John Thune | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-GA | Johnny Isakson | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-AK | Mark Begich | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-IL | Mark Kirk | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-NE | Mike Johanns | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-UT | Orrin G. Hatch | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-OH | Rob Portman | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-MO | Roy Blunt | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-GA | Saxby Chambliss | Original | Jan 14, 2014 |
| R-WY | John Barrasso | Jan 30, 2014 | |
| R-AR | John Boozman | Feb 6, 2014 | |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Feb 6, 2014 | |
| R-WY | Michael B. Enzi | Feb 6, 2014 | |
| R-NV | Dean Heller | Mar 27, 2014 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Apr 8, 2014 | |
| D-AR | Mark L. Pryor | Apr 29, 2014 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Referred Jan 14, 2014Markup Apr 9, 2014Reported Sep 15, 2014 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 15, 2014Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Rockefeller with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 113-255.
- Sep 15, 2014Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 563.
- Apr 9, 2014Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jan 14, 2014Introduced in Senate
- Jan 14, 2014Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S327-328, S329)
- Jan 14, 2014Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S327–S329 | Amy Klobuchar D-MN, John Hoeven R-ND | Jan 14, 2014 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jun 16, 2014S. 1925, Driver Privacy ActAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 9, 2014
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43651 | “Black Boxes” in Passenger Vehicles: Policy Issues Archived | Report | Jul 22, 2014 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to limit the retrieval of data from vehicle event data recorders.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Driver Privacy Act
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Driver Privacy Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 15, 2014Reported to Senate
- Jan 14, 2014Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
