Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act
Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to employment screening for the motor carrier industry, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act
This bill expands and modifies a commercial vehicle operator safety screening program to allow the motor carrier industry to access an individual operator's crash and serious safety violation inspection history during employment. Under current law, this Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) program provides information for pre-employment screening.
The bill also directs FMCSA to revise the appeals process for DataQs to require an appeal to be decided by a person other than the person that issued the violation. DataQs is the online system for motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle drivers to request and track a review of federal and state crash and inspection data that the requestor believes is incomplete or incorrect.
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- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
- AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS
- GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
- AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Highway Administration (FHA)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7261: Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7261/
"H.R. 7261: Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7261/.
H.R. 7261, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7261/.
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