S. 3884: Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act

111th Congress · introduced 2010-09-29 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7798-7799)

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Where it came from: introduced 2010-09-29 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] · what a sponsor is
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Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7798-7799) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act

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Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act - Requires all commercial motor vehicles involved in interstate commerce and subject to both federal hours-of-service and record of duty status requirements, in order to improve compliance with federal hours-of-service regulations, to be equipped with an electronic on-board recording device meeting performance and design standards and requirements prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT). Denies the admissibility in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding of recorded information retrieved from an electronic on-board recording device installed in a motor vehicle: (1) for any purpose other than to establish compliance or noncompliance with applicable federal hours-of-service requirements; or (2) unless the motor vehicle owner consents to the retrieval of information, or the information is retrieved by a government motor vehicle safety or law enforcement agency and is not used by any person or entity other than that agency.

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Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] · 1 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111s3884.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/s>

Record fed-us-cong111-s3884 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111