Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act
Sponsored By: Representative Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would expand and modernize employment screening for the motor carrier industry and strengthen how disputed safety data is labeled and appealed. It shifts some checks from purely preemployment to ongoing employment screening and tightens rules around notice and appeals when safety data is used against a driver.
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- Drivers and applicants: Requires notice and a reasonable window to start and finish an appeal before an adverse action is taken based in whole or part on Motor Carrier Management Information System reports. Appeals must follow the Consumer Credit Protection Act rules and include a right to seek a final disposition.
- Motor carriers and employers: Lets carriers screen operators during employment as well as before hire and expands consent and reference language to explicitly cover operators and their written consent.
- States and federal oversight: Directs the Secretary to label contested "serious driver-related safety" violations in MCMIS and related safety databases as contested until review is complete, and to issue DataQs participation guidelines within 1 year. Those guidelines must tie to motor carrier safety assistance funds and require post-review appeals decided by someone other than the person who issued the violation.
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New protections for commercial drivers
If enacted, this would change how motor-carrier safety data can be used when hiring and managing drivers. It would treat screening during employment like preemployment screening and require written consent from operators or operator-applicants before using MCMIS reports. Employers and others would be barred from taking adverse actions based in whole or in part on MCMIS data until they give notice consistent with federal consumer-reporting rules and give the operator a reasonable period to start and finish an appeal. Within one year, the Secretary of Transportation would have to mark contested safety violations as "being contested" in MCMIS and other systems and require States that get certain federal motor-carrier safety funds to offer an independent appeals process.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1]
KS • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]
KS • D
Sponsored 1/27/2026
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 1/27/2026
Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/30/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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