Title: Transportation Access and System Connection Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transportation Access and System Connection Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to carry out a pilot program to improve transportation planning, including acquiring for participating states and metropolitan planning organizations data sets containing information measuring the level of access by all transportation modes to important destinations in the state or metropolitan planning organization such as jobs, education, health care, and food sources.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4241 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4241

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a pilot program 
      to improve transportation planning, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 3, 2017

Ms. Esty of Connecticut (for herself, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Rodney Davis of 
 Illinois, and Mrs. Comstock) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a pilot program 
      to improve transportation planning, 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 ``Transportation Access and System 
Connection Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--For purposes of carrying out sections 119, 133, 
148, and 149 of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary of 
Transportation, in accordance with the requirements of this section, 
shall carry out a pilot program to improve transportation planning.
    (b) Data Sets.--In carrying out the program, not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall acquire 
for a participating State or metropolitan planning organization a data 
set containing information measuring the level of access by all 
transportation modes to important destinations in the State or 
metropolitan planning organization, such as jobs, education, health 
care, and food sources.
    (c) Selection of Participating States and MPOs.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary shall select, on a 
        competitive basis and in a manner that ensures geographic 
        diversity, 5 States and 10 metropolitan planning organizations 
        (including 6 such organizations that serve an area with a 
        population of not more than 200,000) to participate in the 
        program.
            (2) Applications.--To be eligible to participate in the 
        program, a State or metropolitan planning organization shall 
        submit to the Secretary an application at such time and 
        containing such information as the Secretary may require.
    (d) Consultation With Participating States and MPOs.--The Secretary 
shall consult with participating States and metropolitan planning 
organizations to determine the benefits of the data sets acquired under 
subsection (b).
    (e) Report to Congress.--Not later than 120 days after providing 
data sets to States and metropolitan planning organizations under the 
program, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report on the results of 
the program, including the feasibility of issuing similar data sets to 
all States, regions, and localities.
    (f) Funding.--The Secretary shall carry out the program using 
amounts made available to the Secretary as administrative expenses 
under the sections referred to in subsection (a).
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