To amend title 23, United States Code, to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to employment by all modes of travel for all users, and for other purposes.
Actions Overview (1)
Date
Actions Overview
04/07/2020
Introduced in House
04/07/2020 Introduced in House
All Actions (4)
Date
All Actions
04/08/2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Action By: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
04/07/2020
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Action By: House of Representatives
04/07/2020
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E356) Action By: House of Representatives
04/07/2020
Introduced in House Action By: House of Representatives
04/08/2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
04/07/2020 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
04/07/2020 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E356)
Committees, subcommittees and links to reports associated with this bill are listed here, as well as the nature and date of committee activity and Congressional report number.
Committee / Subcommittee
Date
Activity
Reports
House Transportation and Infrastructure
04/07/2020
Referred to
House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
This bill requires transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to employment. (Access is the ability to travel by auto, transit, pedestrian, and bike networks measured in terms of travel times, with impedances for level of travel stress for active travel and costs for low income travelers.)
The Department of Transportation must establish minimum standards for states to use in determining and improving safe and convenient access to employment for all users by all modes of travel.
If a state fails to improve access, it must obligate 10% of federal transportation funds apportioned to such state from the previous fiscal year into its efforts to meet the minimum standards to improve access.
The bill prohibits metropolitan transportation planning organizations from approving a transportation improvement plan that increases the ratio of automobile to non-automobile access in urbanized areas.
All Summaries (1)
Shown Here: Introduced in House (04/07/2020)
Improving Access to Jobs Act
This bill requires transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to employment. (Access is the ability to travel by auto, transit, pedestrian, and bike networks measured in terms of travel times, with impedances for level of travel stress for active travel and costs for low income travelers.)
The Department of Transportation must establish minimum standards for states to use in determining and improving safe and convenient access to employment for all users by all modes of travel.
If a state fails to improve access, it must obligate 10% of federal transportation funds apportioned to such state from the previous fiscal year into its efforts to meet the minimum standards to improve access.
The bill prohibits metropolitan transportation planning organizations from approving a transportation improvement plan that increases the ratio of automobile to non-automobile access in urbanized areas.