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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3017 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to provide a grant for research 

and training in the operation or establishment of an implicit bias training 

program, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 7, 2021 

Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. VARGAS, and Mrs. HAYES) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to provide a grant 

for research and training in the operation or establishment of an implicit bias training program, 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 ‘‘Bias In Automobile 

5 Stops Act of 2021’’ or ‘‘BIAS Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. IMPLICIT BIAS RESEARCH AND TRAINING GRANTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 

8 shall make grants to institutions of higher education (as 


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1 such term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Edu2 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)) to carry out re3 search, development, technology transfer, and training ac4 tivities in the operation or establishment of an implicit 

5 bias training program as it relates to racial profiling at 

6 traffic stops. 

7 (b) QUALIFICATIONS.—To be eligible for a grant 

8 under this section, an institution of higher education 

9 shall— 

10 (1) have an active research program or dem11 onstrate, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that 

12 the applicant is beginning a research program to 

13 study implicit bias as it relates to racial profiling be14 fore and during traffic stops; and 

15 (2) partner with State and local police depart16 ments to conduct the research described in para17 graph (1) and carry out the implementation of im18 plicit bias training with State and local police de19 partments. 

20 (c) REPORT.—No later than 1 year after a grant has 

21 been awarded under this section, the institution of higher 

22 education awarded the grant shall submit to the Com23 mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 

24 of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 

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1 marizing the research on implicit bias as it relates to racial 

2 profiling before and during traffic stops, and recommenda3 tions on effective interventions and trainings. 

4 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

5 are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each 

6 fiscal year to carry out this section. 

7 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the term ‘‘implicit 

8 bias training program’’ means a program that looks at the 

9 attitudes, stereotypes, and lenses human beings develop 

10 through various experiences in life that can unconsciously 

11 affect how they interact with one another. 

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