To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that the National Driver Registry includes certain information.

Amends Federal transportation law to require the National Driver Registry to include information that specifies if an individual has been convicted in the previous ten years of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or a controlled substance. Authorizes a State or local prosecutor and district attorney to obtain from the State chief driver licensing official certain Registry information about a driver who is under investigation for a traffic related offense.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5230 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5230

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that the National 
             Driver Registry includes certain information.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 6, 2004

 Mr. Beauprez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that the National 
             Driver Registry includes certain information.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTRY ENHANCEMENT.

    (a) Information Regarding Certain Drivers.--Section 30304(b)(1) of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
        subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) information that specifies if an individual 
                has been convicted in the previous 10 years under the 
                laws of the State of operating a motor vehicle under 
                the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or a 
                controlled substance;''.
    (b) Application.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to a conviction described in section 30304(b)(1)(B) of title 49, United 
States Code, that occurs on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO REGISTER INFORMATION.

    Section 30305(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(12) A State or local prosecutor and district attorney 
        may request the chief driver licensing official of a State to 
        obtain information under subsection (a) about an individual who 
        is under investigation for a traffic related offense. A 
        prosecutor and a district attorney may receive the 
        information.''.
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