“A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the highway safety improvement program, and for other purposes.”
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This section expands the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)—which provides formula funding to states for projects and strategies to achieve significant reductions in traffic fatalities and serious injuries—to include as eligible projects (1) connecting two or more segments of existing bicyclist or pedestrian infrastructure and (2) reducing safety risks to vulnerable road users (i.e., pedestrians, bicyclists, and others) through projects or strategies in a program developed under HSIP planning requirements (23 U.S.C. 148(l)(2)(B)); allows up to a 100% federal share for such projects when funded from HSIP apportionments (23 U.S.C. 104(b)(3)); permits HSIP funds to count toward the non-federal share of surface transportation block grant program projects (23 U.S.C. 133(h)(7)) that feature Federal Highway Administration-determined Proven Safety Countermeasures for bicyclists or pedestrians, address vulnerable road users in a state strategic highway safety plan, or were identified in specified local or regional safety plans (e.g., Vision Zero Action Plan, Complete Streets plan) as high-risk areas; authorizes flexible non-federal share calculations for such block grant projects on a project, multiple-project, or program basis with up to 100% federal share; and adds Proven Safety Countermeasures for bicyclists or pedestrians to the list of features eligible for an increased federal share under 23 U.S.C. 120(c)(1).