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An amendment to the 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, recently passed the House Appropriations Committee on an unanimous bipartisan basis, according to a news release from Gluesenkamp Perez’s office.
The amendment urges the Secretary of Transportation to study the impacts of headlight brightness on the vision and safety of drivers, pedestrians and other road users, as well in regard to different terrain, such as hills and curves, the release stated.
In May, Gluesenkamp Perez also urged the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to adopt a maximum headlight brightness standard in the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill that retains visibility for both drivers and oncoming vehicles.
Full text of the amendment can be found at shorturl.at/ZThEf.
Video of Gluesenkamp Perez’s remarks can be found at shorturl.at/zlaba.
“I don't know how many of you drive and how often, but I will tell you there is a plague in this country of headlight brightness. It is shockingly bright. If you look back to halogen light bulbs, you're reaching somewhere around 700 to 1,200 lumens. New LED technology, these sons of b-tches get to like 12,000 lumens,” Gluesenkamp Perez stated in the video.
“It is not a binary choice between walking around in the dark and the fire of a thousand suns. And the standards on this have not been reformed since before I was born. This is the only place I would be considered maybe young, on the Hill. But it is a real problem.”
