HB 1639 — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in highly automated vehicles, further providing for certificate of compliance required.

PRINTER'S NO.   1989

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 1639
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY N. NELSON, HILL-EVANS, DIAMOND, KHAN, D. WILLIAMS
        AND BELLMON, JUNE 23, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 23, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in highly automated vehicles, further providing for
 3      certificate of compliance required.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 8504(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
 8   § 8504.    Certificate of compliance required.
 9      * * *
10      (b)    Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to:
11             * * *
12             (4)   A highly automated vehicle that has been purchased
13      or leased by a person and requires the presence of a human
14      driver who is able to resume all or part of the dynamic
15      driving task or respond to a request to intervene.
16      Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the operation on
17      a highway of this Commonwealth of a motor vehicle equipped
18      with an automated driving system capable of performing the
1     entire dynamic driving task within its operational design
2     domain while a human driver is present is lawful.
3     Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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