Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017”.
Highway Safety Education Improvement Act of 2017
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.
Sec. 2 Highway Safety Improvement Program
Section 148 of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (a)(4)(B)—
by redesignating clause (xxviii) as clause (xxix);
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.”
in clause (xxix), as redesignated, by striking “A physical infrastructure safety project” and inserting “An infrastructure safety project”; and
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”.