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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3156 
To promote the use of smart technologies and systems in communities, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2019 
Ms. CLARKE of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To promote the use of smart technologies and systems in 
communities, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Smart Technologies Advancing Reliable Transportation 
Act’’ or the ‘‘START Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Purpose. 
Sec. 3 Definitions. 
Sec. 4 Smart city and community transportation resource guide. 
Sec. 5. Smart Cities Challenge grant extension program. 
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Sec. 6. GAO study. 
Sec. 7. Reports to Secretary of Transportation and Congress. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to promote smart tech-
nologies and systems to reduce transportation costs, traf-
fic congestion, air pollution, energy use, and carbon emis-
sions, and enhance security resiliency for communities of 
all sizes by— 
(1) creating a smart city and community trans-
portation resource guide; 
(2) promoting the quality and performance of 
smart city technologies while protecting— 
(A) the physical and cyber security of data 
and smart city technology systems; and 
(B) privacy; and 
(3) providing assistance to local governments 
interested in implementing smart city or community 
transportation technologies. 
SEC. 3 DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; and 
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(B) the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure and the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives. 
(2) DATA.—The term ‘‘data’’ includes informa-
tion and images. 
(3) LARGE-SIZED CITY.—The term ‘‘large-sized 
city’’ means a beneficiary city with a population of 
850,000 or greater, according to the most recent an-
nual estimates of resident population by the Bureau 
of the Census. 
(4) MEDIUM-SIZED CITY.—The term ‘‘medium- 
sized city’’ means a beneficiary city with a popu-
lation between 200,000 and 850,000, according to 
the most recent annual estimates of resident popu-
lation by the Bureau of the Census. 
(5) RURAL
AREA.—The term ‘‘rural area’’ 
means a beneficiary jurisdiction with a population 
between 10,000 and 75,000 people, not located with-
in an urbanized area or cluster, according to the 
most recent annual estimates of resident population 
by the Bureau of the Census. 
(6) SECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 
means the Secretary, acting in coordination with— 
(A) the Secretary of Energy; 
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(B) the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development; and 
(C) the Director of the National Science 
Foundation. 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Transportation. 
(8) SECURITY SOLUTIONS.—The term ‘‘security 
solutions’’ means video camera equipment, emer-
gency light and panic alarms, information technology 
and information systems. 
(9) SMALL CITY.—The term ‘‘small city’’ means 
a beneficiary city with a population between 75,000 
and 200,000, according to the most recent annual 
estimates of resident population by the Bureau of 
the Census. 
(10) SMART CITY OR COMMUNITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘smart city 
or community’’ means a community in which 
innovative, advanced, secure, and reliable infor-
mation and communication technologies and re-
lated mechanisms are applied— 
(i) to improve the quality of life for 
residents; 
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(ii) to reduce resource consumption by 
increasing the efficiency and cost effective-
ness of civic operations and services; 
(iii) to promote economic growth; and 
(iv) to create a community that is 
safer and more secure, sustainable, resil-
ient, livable, and workable. 
(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘smart city 
or community’’ includes a local jurisdiction that 
installs smart city technology that— 
(i) gathers and incorporates data from 
systems, devices, and sensors embedded in 
civic systems and infrastructure to improve 
the effectiveness and efficiency of civic op-
erations and services; 
(ii) aggregates and analyzes gathered 
data; 
(iii) communicates the analysis and 
data in a variety of formats; 
(iv) makes corresponding improve-
ments to civic systems and services based 
on gathered data; and 
(v) integrates measures— 
(I) to ensure the resilience of 
civic systems against cybersecurity 
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threats 
and 
physical 
and 
social 
vulnerabilities and breaches; 
(II) to protect the private data of 
residents; and 
(III) to measure the impact of 
smart city or community technologies 
on the effectiveness and efficiency 
civic operations and services. 
(11) SMART
CITY
TECHNOLOGY.—The term 
‘‘smart city technology’’ means technology and sys-
tems that gather and incorporate data from systems, 
devices, and sensors embedded in civic systems, se-
curity systems, transportation and traffic manage-
ment systems, and infrastructure to improve the ef-
fectiveness and efficiency of civic operations by— 
(A) aggregating and analyzing collected 
data; 
(B) communicating the analysis and data 
in a variety of forms; 
(C) corresponding improvements to civic 
systems and services based on gathered data; 
(D) providing innovative services in mul-
tiple modes of transport and traffic manage-
ment to enable users to be safer, better coordi-
nated and connected, and better informed; and 
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(E) integrating measures— 
(i) to protect private data of residents; 
and 
(ii) to measure the impact of smart 
city or community technologies on the ef-
fectiveness and efficiency of civic oper-
ations and services. 
(12) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means— 
(A) a State; 
(B) the District of Columbia; 
(C) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; 
and 
(D) any other territory or possession of the 
United States. 
(13) URBAN
AREA.—The term ‘‘urban area’’ 
means a area designated as an urbanized area by 
the Bureau of the Census with a population of 
50,000 residents or more. 
SEC. 4 SMART CITY AND COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION 
RESOURCE GUIDE. 
(a) PUBLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries, in coordina-
tion with the heads of any other applicable Federal 
agencies, shall create, publish, and maintain a re-
source guide designed to assist States, communities, 
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