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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3792 

To assist young adults with obtaining or regaining driver’s licenses, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 21, 2015 

Ms. MOORE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To assist young adults with obtaining or regaining driver’s 

licenses, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Young Adults Driving 

5 Safety Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GRANTS TO ASSIST YOUNG ADULTS WITH OBTAIN7 ING DRIVER’S LICENSES. 

8 (a) GRANTS.— 

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 

10 through the Administrator of the National Highway 


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1 Traffic Safety Administration, may award grants on 

2 a competitive basis to eligible entities to develop 

3 model programs to assist young adults with obtain4 ing or regaining driver’s licenses. 

5 (2) MAXIMUM GRANT AWARD.—A grant award6 ed under this section may not exceed $100,000. 

7 (b) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity that receives 

8 a grant under this section may use the grant funds to— 

9 (1) conduct a comprehensive assessment of the 

10 driver’s licensing status of young adults in the 

11 neighborhoods in which the majority of the youth to 

12 be served by the program reside or attend school; 

13 (2) develop and implement strategies to address 

14 licensing deficits and barriers young adults and dis15 connected youth face in obtaining a driver’s license; 

16 (3) study the impact of State and local driver’s 

17 license suspensions and revocation policies, including 

18 the implementation of such policies by municipal 

19 courts, on young adults in the areas where the youth 

20 who will be served by the program reside or attend 

21 school; 

22 (4) identify potential sources of funding for 

23 high school driver’s education programs for each 

24 high school in a school district; 


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1 (5) develop innovative and cost-effective strate2 gies for preparing young adults for legal driving; 

3 (6) evaluate the effectiveness of the funded 

4 grant activities in achieving the program goals; and 

5 (7) conduct any other activities considered ap6 propriate by the Secretary. 

7 (c) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under this sec8 tion, an eligible entity shall submit an application to the 

9 Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing 

10 such information as the Secretary may require. Such ap11 plication shall describe the following: 

12 (1) How the eligible entity proposes to use the 

13 grant funds to create a program to assist young 

14 adults with obtaining or regaining driver’s licenses. 

15 (2) How the eligible entity intends to collabo16 rate with education institutions and organizations 

17 with job training programs. 

18 (3) How the proposed program is expected to 

19 create opportunities for the employment and job 

20 training of young adults who participate in the pro21 posed program. 

22 (4) How the eligible entity intends to target 

23 youth in areas experiencing high levels of unemploy24 ment among young adults. 


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1 (5) How the proposed program is expected to 

2 assist low-income young adults and disconnected 

3 youth with school and employment. 

4 (6) The eligible entity’s history of working with 

5 young adults. 

6 (7) The eligible entity’s history of assisting in7 dividuals in regaining a driver’s license, especially in 

8 cases in which the driver’s license was suspended or 

9 revoked for non-safety related reasons. 

10 (d) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under subsection 

11 (a), the Secretary shall give priority to eligible entities pro12 posing programs to assist low-income young adults with 

13 obtaining or regaining driver’s licenses. 

14 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

15 (1) DISCONNECTED YOUTH.—The term ‘‘dis16 connected youth’’ means low-income young adults 

17 who— 

18 (A) are homeless; 

19 (B) are in foster care; 

20 (C) have come into contact, or are at risk 

21 of coming into contact, with the juvenile justice 

22 or criminal justice system; 

23 (D) are not employed and not enrolled in 

24 school; or 


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1 (E) are at risk of dropping out of an edu2 cation institution. 

3 (2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti4 ty’’ means a non-profit organization, tribal govern5 ment, education institution, or any other organiza6 tion considered appropriate by the Secretary. 

7 (3) EDUCATION INSTITUTION.—The term ‘‘edu8 cation institution’’ means an institution of higher 

9 education or a high-need local education agency. 

10 (4) HIGH-NEED LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY.— 

11 The term ‘‘high-need local education agency’’ has 

12 the meaning given such term in section 2102(3)(A) 

13 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 

14 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6602). 

15 (5) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 

16 term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 

17 meaning given such term in section 101 of the High18 er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 

19 (6) LOW-INCOME.—The term ‘‘low-income’’, 

20 with respect to a young adult, means a household in21 come at or below 185 percent of the poverty line. 

22 (7) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.—The term 

23 ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ means any organization 

24 that is described in section 501(c) of the Internal 


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1 Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from tax under 

2 section 501(a) of such Code. 

3 (8) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘‘poverty line’’ 

4 means the poverty line (as defined by the Office of 

5 Management and Budget and revised annually in ac6 cordance with section 673 of the Community Serv7 ices Block Grant Act (Public Law 97–35; 42 U.S.C. 

8 9902)) applicable to a family of the size involved. 

9 (9) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

10 the Secretary of Transportation. 

11 (10) YOUNG ADULT.—The term ‘‘young adult’’ 

12 means an individual who is at least 16 years old and 

13 less than 25 years old. 

14 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 

15 out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated 

16 $1,000,000 each year for each of fiscal years 2015 

17 through 2019. 

18 SEC. 3. AUTHORITY TO USE STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY 

19 FUNDS FOR TEEN DRIVING EDUCATION. 

20 Section 402(m)(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code, 

21 is amended— 

22 (1) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘and’’; and 

23 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

24 clause: 


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1 ‘‘(vi) support teen driving education 

2 and driving skills improvement; and’’. 

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