S. 5336

Uniform Vehicle Safety Standards Act of 2026

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Sec. 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Uniform Vehicle Safety Standards Act of 2026.

Sec. 2. Purposes

The purposes of this Act are—

(1) to ensure the uniform application of motor vehicle safety standards prescribed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration pursuant to chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code; and

(2) to relieve the unreasonable burden on interstate commerce of allowing suits at common law to supplant such motor vehicle safety standards.

Sec. 3. Prohibition on liability based on failure to exceed applicable motor vehicle safety standards

Section 30103(e) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking does not exempt and inserting shall exempt; and

(2) by inserting for failure to exceed such standard after common law.