Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Safe Routes to All Schools Act”.
Safe Routes to All Schools Act
A BILL
To improve the Safe Routes to School Program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Safe routes to school program
Sense of Congress— It is the sense of Congress that—
the safe routes to school program under section 1404 of SAFETEA–LU (23 U.S.C. 402 note; Public Law 109–59) (referred to in this subsection as the “program”) should be expanded to include high school students as well as primary and middle school students;
the program helps ensure the safety of children; and
Congress should continue to provide funding for this important program.
Safe routes to school— Section 1404 of SAFETEA–LU (23 U.S.C. 402 note; Public Law 109–59) is amended—
in subsection (a), by striking “primary and middle” and inserting “primary, middle, and high”; and
in subsection (k)(2)—
in the heading, by striking “Primary and middle” and inserting “Primary, middle, and high”;
by striking “primary and middle” and inserting “primary, middle, and high”; and
by striking “eighth grade” and inserting “12th grade”.