DataQs improvement

Section 31150 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (d), by inserting safety after serious driver-related; (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (f); and (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following: (d) Data subject To review Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act, the Secretary shall ensure that during any period in which a safety violation is being contested, the report on that violation is labeled in a manner that indicates such violation is being contested in the Motor Carrier Management Information System and in any other relevant databases, including the Employment Screening Program, the Safety Measurement System, and Analysis and Information Online, until the review of the contested violation is complete. (e) DataQs appeals process Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act, the Secretary shall promulgate DataQs program participation guidelines that direct States receiving funds under the motor carrier safety assistance program under section 31102 to provide for an appeals process by which— (1) following the conclusion of a request for data review, an affected party may appeal the disposition of the review; and (2) an appeal of the disposition is decided in a reasonable period of time by a person or persons other than the person that issued the violation..