National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: federal rules
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published 23 final rules in 2026 so far and 10 in 2025, counted by the Tribune from the Federal Register.
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Final rules 33
- Sept. 30, 2026The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 523, 531, 533 and 3 more · Opens the Federal Register
- Sept. 23, 2026Amendment to the Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 23 CFR part 1300 · Opens the Federal Register
- Sept. 9, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213a; Child Restraint Systems-Side Impact Protection; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213; Child Restraint Systems, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213b; Child Restraint Systems; Incorporation by Reference
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Aug. 31, 2026Resetting NHTSA's Fuel Economy Program: Commercial Medium- and Heavy-Duty On-Highway Vehicles and Work Trucks
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 523, 534, 535 · Opens the Federal Register
- July 31, 2026Temporary Exemption From Motor Vehicle Safety and Bumper Standards
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 555 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 11, 2026Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 23 CFR part 1300 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 216; Roof Crush Resistance, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 216a; Roof Crush Resistance; Upgraded Standard
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 303; Fuel System Integrity of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 217; Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Removing Obsolete Directives From Phase-In Reporting Requirements
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 214; Side Impact Protection; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 305a; Electric-Powered Vehicles: Electric Powertrain Integrity; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 307; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Removing Obsolete Procedures From the Consumer Assistance To Recycle and Save Act of 2009
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 599 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 304; Compressed Natural Gas Fuel Container Integrity
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 222; School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 301; Fuel System Integrity
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 207; Seating Systems
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 206; Door Locks and Door Retention Components
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 204; Steering Control Rearward Displacement
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 210; Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 3, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 205; Glazing Materials; No. 205(a), Glazing Equipment Manufactured Before September 1, 2006, and Glazing Materials Used in Vehicles Manufactured Before November 1, 2006
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 18, 2026Event Data Recorders
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 563, 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- April 6, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection, Seat Belt Reminder Systems
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 15, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards: Anti-Ejection Glazing for Bus Portals; Mandatory Applicability Beginning October 30, 2027
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- July 15, 2025Technical Amendment to the Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 23 CFR part 1300 · Opens the Federal Register
- July 3, 2025Recission of NHTSA's 1975 Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 520 · Opens the Federal Register
- July 2, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213a; Child Restraint Systems-Side Impact Protection; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213; Child Restraint Systems, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213b; Child Restraint Systems
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 571, 572 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 11, 2025Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 531, 533, 535 · Opens the Federal Register
- March 3, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Bus Rollover Structural Integrity
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- March 3, 2025Implementing the Whistleblower Provisions of the Vehicle Safety Act
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 513 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 17, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles; Compressed Hydrogen Storage System Integrity; Incorporation by Reference
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 7, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems, Child Restraint Anchorage Systems, Incorporation by Reference
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 571, 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 3, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Occupant Crash Protection, Seat Belt Reminder Systems, Controls and Displays
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 3, 2025Anthropomorphic Test Devices, HIII 5TH Percentile Female Test Dummy; Incorporation by Reference
Final rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 572 · Opens the Federal Register
Proposed rules 30
- Oct. 26, 2026
- Sept. 22, 2026Part 572; Anthropomorphic Test Devices; Test Device for Human Occupant Restraint 50th Percentile Adult Male Dummy (THOR-50M)
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 572 · Opens the Federal Register
- Sept. 21, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Denial of a Petition for Rulemaking
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Aug. 4, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Anchorage Systems; Child Restraint Systems
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 571, 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 26, 2026Response to Petition for Reconsideration, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- June 26, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 135 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- April 1, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 110 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- March 16, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 103 and FMVSS No. 104 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles; Incorporation by Reference
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- March 16, 2026Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 102 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- Dec. 12, 2025Public Hearing for Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards: The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 531, 533, 535 and 1 more · Opens the Federal Register
- Dec. 5, 2025The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 523, 531, 533 and 2 more · Opens the Federal Register
- Nov. 28, 2025Event Data Recorders
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 563, 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- Sept. 19, 2025Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 23 CFR part 1300 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 204; Steering Control Rearward Displacement
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 205, Glazing Materials; No. 205(a), Glazing Equipment Manufactured Before September 1, 2006, and Glazing Materials Used in Vehicles Manufactured Before November 1, 2006
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 206; Door Locks and Door Retention Components
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 207; Seating systems
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 210; Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 214, Side Impact Protection
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard; No. 216; Roof Crush Resistance, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 216a; Roof Crush Resistance; Upgraded Standard
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 217; Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 222; School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 301, Fuel System Integrity
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 303, Fuel System Integrity of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 304, Compressed Natural Gas Fuel Container Integrity
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213a; Child Restraint Systems-Side Impact Protection; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213; Child Restraint Systems, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213b; Child Restraint Systems
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 571 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Removing Obsolete Directives From Phase-In Reporting Requirements
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 585 · Opens the Federal Register
- May 30, 2025Removing Obsolete Procedures From the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 599 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 15, 2025ADS-Equipped Vehicle Safety, Transparency, and Evaluation Program
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR parts 595, 597 · Opens the Federal Register
- Jan. 10, 2025Updated Means of Providing Recall Notification
Proposed rule · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · 49 CFR part 577 · Opens the Federal Register