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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 fol-
lowing 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 establish-
ment of an implicit bias training program, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bias In Automobile 
Stops Act of 2021’’ or ‘‘BIAS Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPLICIT BIAS RESEARCH AND TRAINING GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall make grants to institutions of higher education (as 
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such term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)) to carry out re-
search, development, technology transfer, and training ac-
tivities in the operation or establishment of an implicit 
bias training program as it relates to racial profiling at 
traffic stops. 
(b) QUALIFICATIONS.—To be eligible for a grant 
under this section, an institution of higher education 
shall— 
(1) have an active research program or dem-
onstrate, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that 
the applicant is beginning a research program to 
study implicit bias as it relates to racial profiling be-
fore and during traffic stops; and 
(2) partner with State and local police depart-
ments to conduct the research described in para-
graph (1) and carry out the implementation of im-
plicit bias training with State and local police de-
partments. 
(c) REPORT.—No later than 1 year after a grant has 
been awarded under this section, the institution of higher 
education awarded the grant shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report sum-
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marizing the research on implicit bias as it relates to racial 
profiling before and during traffic stops, and recommenda-
tions on effective interventions and trainings. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each 
fiscal year to carry out this section. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the term ‘‘implicit 
bias training program’’ means a program that looks at the 
attitudes, stereotypes, and lenses human beings develop 
through various experiences in life that can unconsciously 
affect how they interact with one another. 
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