---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6001"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6001"
heading: "Establishment of program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6001"
units:
  - "Chapter 86 — Children’s Bicycle Helmet Safety"
---

# §6001. Establishment of program

- (a) **In general—** The [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) of the National Highway Traffic Safety [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) may, in accordance with [section 6002 of this title](/usc/15/6002.md), make grants to [States](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), political subdivisions of [States](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), and nonprofit organizations for programs that require or encourage individuals under the age of 16 to wear approved bicycle helmets. In making those grants, the [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) shall allow grantees to use wide discretion in designing programs that effectively promote increased bicycle helmet use.
- (b) **Federal share—** The amount provided by a grant under this section shall not exceed 80 percent of the cost of the program for which the grant is made. In crediting the recipient [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), political subdivision, or nonprofit organization for the non-Federal share of the cost of such a program (other than planning and [administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1)), the aggregate of all expenditures made by such [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), political subdivision, or nonprofit organization (exclusive of Federal funds) for the purposes described in [section 6002 of this title](/usc/15/6002.md) (other than expenditures for planning and [administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1)) shall be available for such crediting, without regard to whether such expenditures were actually made in connection with such program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–267, title II, § 202, June 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 726.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 103–267, title II, § 201, June 16, 1994, 108 Stat. 726, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Children’s Bicycle Helmet Safety Act of 1994’.”