Title: Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017
This bill expands the definition of "highway safety improvement project" to include education, as part of an approved state strategic highway safety plan, subject to a specified funding limitation.
The bill also modifies the highway safety improvement program high-risk rural road safety rule to require a state to obligate additional funds for projects on high-risk rural roads if the fatality rate on such roads does not decrease (currently, if it increases) during a two-year period. If the fatality rate does not decrease and exceeds the national fatality rate on rural roads, then, as under existing law, the state must obligate 200% of the amount it received for high-risk rural roads in FY2009.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1612 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1612

 To expand the definition of highway safety improvement project under 
   section 148 of title 23, United States Code, to include education 
 integrated into an approved State strategic highway safety plan, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 20, 2017

   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 expand the definition of highway safety improvement project under 
   section 148 of title 23, United States Code, to include education 
 integrated into an approved State strategic highway safety plan, 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 ``Highway Safety Education Improvement 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

    Section 148 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4)(B)--
                    (A) by redesignating clause (xxviii) as clause 
                (xxix);
                    (B) by inserting after clause (xxvii) the 
                following:
                            ``(xxviii) Education, as part of an 
                        approved State strategic highway safety plan, 
                        except that the total amount of funds that may 
                        be used by a State in a fiscal year for 
                        projects under this clause may not exceed 10 
                        percent of the amount allocated to the State 
                        for the highway safety improvement program 
                        under this section for such fiscal year, after 
                        the set asides for metropolitan transportation 
                        planning under section 134 and the congestion 
                        mitigation and air quality improvement program 
                        under section 149.''; and
                    (C) in clause (xxix), as redesignated, by striking 
                ``A physical infrastructure safety project'' and 
                inserting ``An infrastructure safety project''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ``increases over the 
        most recent 2-year period for which data are available'' and 
        inserting ``does not decrease during the most recent 2-year 
        period for which data are available compared to the immediately 
        preceding 2-year period, and exceeds the national fatality rate 
        on rural roads''.
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