Title: Reservation of Transportation Funds Improvement Act of 2018
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Reservation of Transportation Funds Improvement Act of 2018
This bill extends through FY 2019 and thereafter the reservation of funds for failure of states to enact or enforce open container laws and repeat intoxicated driver laws.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3252 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3252

To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify requirements relating 
to reservation of funds for failure to enact or enforce open container 
    laws and repeat intoxicated driver laws, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 19, 2018

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify requirements relating 
to reservation of funds for failure to enact or enforce open container 
    laws and repeat intoxicated driver laws, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reservation of Transportation Funds 
Improvement Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. RESERVATION OF CERTAIN FUNDS.

    (a) Open Container Requirements.--Section 154(c)(2) of title 23, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``2012'' and 
        inserting ``2019'';
            (2) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Reservation of funds.--
                            ``(i) In general.--On October 1, 2018, and 
                        each October 1 thereafter, in the case of a 
                        State described in clause (ii), the Secretary 
                        shall reserve an amount equal to 2.5 percent of 
                        the funds to be apportioned to the State on 
                        that date under each of paragraphs (1) and (2) 
                        of section 104(b) until the State certifies to 
                        the Secretary the means by which the State will 
                        use those reserved funds in accordance with 
                        subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), and 
                        paragraph (3).
                            ``(ii) States described.--A State referred 
                        to in clause (i) is a State--
                                    ``(I) that has not enacted or is 
                                not enforcing an open container law 
                                described in subsection (b); and
                                    ``(II) for which the Secretary 
                                determined for the prior fiscal year 
                                that the State had not enacted or was 
                                not enforcing an open container law 
                                described in subsection (b).''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (B), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by striking ``subparagraph (A)'' and inserting 
        ``subparagraph (A)(i)''.
    (b) Repeat Intoxicated Driver Laws.--Section 164(b)(2) of title 23, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``2012'' and 
        inserting ``2019'';
            (2) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Reservation of funds.--
                            ``(i) In general.--On October 1, 2018, and 
                        each October 1 thereafter, in the case of a 
                        State described in clause (ii), the Secretary 
                        shall reserve an amount equal to 2.5 percent of 
                        the funds to be apportioned to the State on 
                        that date under each of paragraphs (1) and (2) 
                        of section 104(b) until the State certifies to 
                        the Secretary the means by which the State will 
                        use those reserved funds in accordance with 
                        subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), and 
                        paragraph (3).
                            ``(ii) States described.--A State referred 
                        to in clause (i) is a State--
                                    ``(I) that has not enacted or is 
                                not enforcing a repeat intoxicated 
                                driver law; and
                                    ``(II) for which the Secretary 
                                determined for the prior fiscal year 
                                that the State had not enacted or was 
                                not enforcing a repeat intoxicated 
                                driver law.''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (B), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by striking ``subparagraph (A)'' and inserting 
        ``subparagraph (A)(i)''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act take effect on 
October 1, 2018.
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