Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Local Road Safety Act of 2014”.
Local Road Safety Act of 2014
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the highway safety improvement program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Highway safety improvement program
State strategic highway safety plan— Section 148(a)(12) of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
in subparagraph (A)—
in clause (ix) by striking “and” at the end;
by redesignating clause (x) as clause (xi); and
by inserting after clause (ix) the following:
“(x) private sector experts in the field of roadway safety infrastructure; and”
in subparagraph (E) by inserting “, including the results of any strategic highway safety plan developed by a county or local government entity or regional transportation planning organization” after “processes”.
Special Rules— Section 148(g) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(3) County and local transportation agencies—Each fiscal year, a State shall provide to county and local transportation agencies, from amounts apportioned to that State under section 104(b)(3) in that fiscal year, amounts that the State determines are necessary to assist such agencies to address significant safety needs, and high fatality segments, of non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal land identified in a State strategic highway safety plan.”