§ 31309. Commercial driver’s license information system
(a)
General Requirement.—
The Secretary of Transportation shall maintain an information system that will serve as a clearinghouse and depository of information about the licensing, identification, and disqualification of operators of commercial motor vehicles. The system shall be coordinated with activities carried out under section
31106. The Secretary shall consult with the States in carrying out this section.
(b)
Contents.—
(c)
Availability of Information.—
Information in the information system shall be made available and subject to review and correction in accordance with the policy developed under section
31106
(e).
(d)
Fee System.—
The Secretary may establish a fee system for using the information system. Fees collected under this subsection in a fiscal year shall equal as nearly as possible the costs of operating the information system in that fiscal year. The Secretary shall deposit fees collected under this subsection in the Highway Trust Fund (except the Mass Transit Account).
(e)
Modernization Plan.—
(1)
In general.—
Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall develop and publish a comprehensive national plan to modernize the information system under this section that—
(2)
Consultation.—
The plan shall be developed in consultation with representatives of the motor carrier industry, State safety enforcement agencies, and State licensing agencies designated by the Secretary.
(3)
State funding of future efforts.—
The plan shall specify that States will fund future efforts to modernize the commercial driver’s information system.
(4)
Deadline for state participation.—
(A)
In general.—
The Secretary shall establish in the plan a date by which all States must be operating commercial driver’s license information systems that are compatible with the modernized information system under this section.
(f)
Funding.—
At the Secretary’s discretion, a State may use the funds made available to the State under section
31313 to modernize its commercial driver’s license information system to be compatible with the modernized information system under this section.
[1] See References in Text note below.