RENTAL TRUCK ACCIDENT STUDY.

SEC. 32206. RENTAL TRUCK ACCIDENT STUDY. (a) Definitions.—In this section: (1) Rental truck.—The term “rental truck” means a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of between 10,000 and 26,000 pounds that is made available for rental by a rental truck company. (2) Rental truck company.—The term “rental truck company” means a person or company that is in the business of renting or leasing rental trucks to the public or for private use. (b) Study.— (1) In general.—The Secretary shall conduct a study of the safety of rental trucks during the 7-year period ending on December 31, 2011. (2) Requirements.—The study conducted under paragraph (1) shall— (A) evaluate available data on the number of crashes, fatalities, and injuries involving rental trucks and the cause of such crashes, utilizing police accident reports and other sources; (B) estimate the property damage and costs resulting from a subset of crashes involving rental truck operations, which the Secretary believes adequately reflect all crashes involving rental trucks; (C) analyze State and local laws regulating rental truck companies, including safety and inspection requirements; (D) assess the rental truck maintenance programs of a selection of small, medium, and large rental truck companies, as selected by the Secretary, including the frequency of rental truck maintenance inspections, and compare such programs with inspection requirements for passenger vehicles and commercial motor vehicles; (E) include any other information available regarding the safety of rental trucks; (F) evaluate the completion of safety recall remedies on rental trucks; and (G) review any other information that the Secretary determines to be appropriate. (c) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that contains— (1) the findings of the study conducted pursuant to subsection (b); and (2) any recommendations for legislation that the Secretary determines to be appropriate. [Note: Effective on June 4, 2016, section 24109(g)(2) of Public Law 114–94 provides for amendments to subsection (c) of section 32206. Upon such date, subsection (c) of section 32206 reads as follows:] (c) Reports.— (1) Initial report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that contains— (A) the findings of the study conducted pursuant to subparagraphs (A) through (E) and (G) of subsection (b)(2); and (B) any recommendations for legislation that the Secretary determines to be appropriate. (2) Safety recall remedy report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the “Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2015”, the Secretary shall submit a report to the congressional committees set forth in paragraph (1) that contains— (A) the findings of the study conducted pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(F); and (B) any recommendations for legislation that the Secretary determines to be appropriate.