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HB1639 • 2025

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

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

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
N. NELSON
Last action
2025-06-23
Official status
Referred to TRANSPORTATION, June 23, 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

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

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-23 TRANSPORTATION

    Referred to TRANSPORTATION, June 23, 2025

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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