Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act

Bill: 113-hr-1861
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2013-05-07
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor vehicles

Roads and highways

Transportation programs funding

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) from providing grants or funds to a state, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal, or other local government for use in any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for a motorcycle driver or passenger. </p> <p>Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make grants to states that have a law which makes it unlawful for any individual on an operating motorcycle to be without a motorcycle helmet.</p> <p>Revises grant eligibility requirements to eliminate the requirement that states achieve a certain rate of compliance with such law.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1861 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2013 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina , Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin , Mr. Huizenga of Michigan , Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois , Mr. Hultgren , Mr. Jones , Mr. Duffy , Mr. Griffin of Arkansas , and Mr. Terry ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To stop motorcycle checkpoint funding, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act . 2. Grant restriction The Secretary of Transportation may not provide a grant or any funds to a State, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal or other local government to be used for any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for an operator of motorcycle or passenger on a motorcycle. 3. Motorcycle safety Section 153 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the section heading by striking and motorcycle helmets ; (2) in subsection (a) by striking such fiscal year— and everything that follows through (2) a law and inserting such fiscal year a law ; (3) in subsection (b) by striking State laws each place it appears and inserting a State law ; and (4) in subsection (f) by amending paragraphs (2) and (3) to read as follows: (2) Second-year grants A State is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year succeeding the first fiscal year in which a State receives a grant under this section only if the State in the preceding fiscal year had in effect at all times a State law described in subsection (a) and achieved a rate of compliance with such law of not less than 50 percent. (3) Third-year grants A State is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year succeeding the second fiscal year in which a State receives a grant under this section only if the State in the preceding fiscal year had in effect at all times a State law described in subsection (a) and achieved a rate of compliance with such law of not less than 70 percent. . 4. Highway safety programs Section 402(a)(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking clause (iv) and inserting the following: (iv) to prevent accidents in order to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from accidents involving motor vehicles and motorcycles; .