Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1612
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-07-20
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-20
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill expands the definition of &quot;highway safety improvement project&quot; to include education, as part of an approved state strategic highway safety plan, subject to a specified funding limitation.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1612 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017 . 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 .