WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is backing a bipartisan bill to protect American workers and families from the growing threat of Chinese-made vehicles and the technology embedded within them. The Connected Vehicle Security Act prevents Americans' data from being collected on American roads and sent back to Beijing by cutting off the supply of vehicles, software, and critical hardware originating from China or Chinese companies at every point in the chain, from the manufacturing process, to import, to sale.

"Chinese-made connected vehicles are a surveillance threat to our families, an economic threat to our workers, and a security threat to our whole country," said Senator Baldwin. "We need to act fast before it's too late - and I'm glad to be teaming up with Democrats and Republicans to make sure China can't track and collect data on our communities and undercut American workers."

Specifically, the Connected Vehicle Security Act:

• Bans foreign adversary vehicles by prohibiting the importation, manufacture, sale, and resale of connected vehicles, software, and hardware linked to China or other foreign adversaries, including those from joint ventures or entities under their control;
• Empowers the Department of Commerce to identify and block high-risk vehicle technologies, components, and transactions that threaten U.S. economic or national security;
• Establishes enforcement mechanisms to ensure prohibited technologies are kept out of the U.S. market; and
• Phases implementation with vehicle and software restrictions taking effect in 2027, and hardware restrictions in 2030, giving the U.S. industry time to secure a domestic supply, in line with the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Connected Vehicles rule.

The bill is led by Senators Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).

A one-pager on this bill is available here. Full text of this legislation is available here.

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