Title: MOVE Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Mobility, Opportunity, and Vocation Enabling Act or the MOVE Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations necessary to establish performance measures relating to multimodal transportation connectivity and accessibility for states and metropolitan planning organizations to use to assess the connectivity and accessibility of roadways, public transit infrastructure, pedestrian and bikeway infrastructure, and other transportation infrastructure.
Such performance measures must include ones to assess specified transportation accessibility factors with respect to the general population as well as disadvantaged populations (low-income or minority populations and people with disabilities).
A metropolitan planning organization shall coordinate selection of multimodal transportation accessibility performance targets with the relevant state and public transportation providers to ensure consistency with the performance measures DOT shall require under this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 932 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 932

   To direct the Secretary of Transportation to develop performance 
 measures for assessing transportation connectivity and accessibility 
 for highway and public transportation systems, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2017

Mr. Ellison (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Maxine Waters of 
   California, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Lee, and Mr. 
   Quigley) 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 develop performance 
 measures for assessing transportation connectivity and accessibility 
 for highway and public transportation systems, 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 ``Mobility, Opportunity, and Vocation 
Enabling Act'' or the ``MOVE Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR TRANSPORTATION 
              ACCESSIBILITY.

    (a) Connectivity and Accessibility Performance Measures.--Section 
150 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Multimodal transportation connectivity and 
        accessibility.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 6 years after the 
                date of enactment of the Mobility, Opportunity, and 
                Vocation Enabling Act, the Secretary shall issue such 
                regulations as are necessary to establish performance 
                measures relating to transportation connectivity and 
                accessibility for States and metropolitan planning 
                organizations to use to assess the connectivity and 
                accessibility of roadways, public transit 
                infrastructure, pedestrian and bikeway infrastructure, 
                and other transportation infrastructure.
                    ``(B) Content.--The performance measures required 
                under subparagraph (A) shall include measures to 
                assess--
                            ``(i) with respect to the general 
                        population serviced by a transportation 
                        system--
                                    ``(I) the change in cumulative 
                                access to employment opportunities;
                                    ``(II) multi-modal choice and 
                                enhanced interconnections among modes 
                                to--
                                            ``(aa) offer variety of 
                                        choice between and among modes;
                                            ``(bb) provide accessible 
                                        and reliable transportation for 
                                        all users; and
                                            ``(cc) encourage travel 
                                        demand management; and
                                    ``(III) such other areas the 
                                Secretary considers appropriate; and
                            ``(ii) with respect to disadvantaged 
                        populations serviced by a transportation 
                        system--
                                    ``(I) transportation accessibility 
                                for disadvantaged populations;
                                    ``(II) change in cumulative job 
                                accessibility for disadvantaged 
                                populations; and
                                    ``(III) such other areas the 
                                Secretary considers appropriate.
                    ``(C) Disadvantaged population defined.--In this 
                paragraph, the term `disadvantaged population' means a 
                low-income or minority population, or people with 
                disabilities, as determined by the Secretary.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d) by striking ``and (6)'' and inserting 
        ``(6), and (7)''.
    (b) Title 23 Metropolitan Planning Coordination.--Section 
134(h)(2)(B) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
                            ``(iii) Multimodal transportation 
                        accessibility performance targets.--Selection 
                        of performance targets by a metropolitan 
                        planning organization shall be coordinated, to 
                        the maximum extent practicable, with the 
                        relevant State and providers of public 
                        transportation to ensure consistency with 
                        section 150(c)(7).''.
    (c) Title 49 Metropolitan Planning Coordination.--Section 
5303(h)(2)(B) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
                            ``(iii) Multimodal transportation 
                        accessibility performance targets.--Selection 
                        of performance targets by a metropolitan 
                        planning organization shall be coordinated, to 
                        the maximum extent practicable, with the 
                        relevant State and providers of public 
                        transportation to ensure consistency with 
                        section 150(c)(7) of title 23.''.
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