Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act”.
Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act
A BILL
To stop motorcycle checkpoint funding, and for other purposes.
Sec. 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.
Sec. 3 Motorcycle safety
Section 153 of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
in the section heading by striking “and motorcycle helmets”;
in subsection (a) by striking “such fiscal year—” and everything that follows through “(2) a law” and inserting “such fiscal year a law”;
in subsection (b) by striking “State laws” each place it appears and inserting “a State law”; and
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.”
Sec. 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;”