Bill > HR6463

Introduced Session

To amend title 23 and title 49, United States Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to services by all modes of travel for all users, and for other purposes. This bill requires transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to certain services, including health care facilities, child care, and affordable housing. (Access is the ability to travel by auto, transit, pedestrian, and bike networks measured in terms of travel times, with impedances for level of travel stress for active travel and costs for low income travelers.) The Department of Transportation must establish minimum standards for states to use in determining and improving safe and convenient access to certain services for all users by all modes of travel. If a state fails to improve access, it must obligate 10% of federal transportation funds apportioned to such state from the previous fiscal year into its efforts to meet the minimum standards to improve access. The bill prohibits metropolitan transportation planning organizations from approving a transportation improvement plan that increases the ratio of automobile to non-automobile access in urbanized areas.

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Chuy García (D)*,  Nanette Barragán (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Bill Foster (D),  Marcia Fudge (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Ann Kirkpatrick (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Bobby Rush (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Bennie Thompson (D),  Rashida Tlaib (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (on 04/08/2020)

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