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A bill to establish a community-driven decisionmaking pilot program to demonstrate enhanced community-based decisionmaking in the transportation planning process, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 19, 2021 Introduced by: Merkley, Jeff Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 19, 2021
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill establishes a pilot program to facilitate community involvement in transportation planning by supporting partnerships between one or more transportation planning agencies (e.g., local and regional metropolitan planning organizations) and community-based organizations.

To carry out the program, the Department of Transportation must award grants to such partnerships for, among other purposes, facilitating public meetings and stipends to cover expenses of community participants related to their engagement in transportation planning processes.

What's happening now May 19, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

 Bill text 1 version

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Padilla, Alex
California · May 19, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1717: A bill to establish a community-driven decisionmaking pilot program to demonstrate enhanced community-based decisionmaking in the transportation planning process, and for other purposes.. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1717/
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"S. 1717: A bill to establish a community-driven decisionmaking pilot program to demonstrate enhanced community-based decisionmaking in the transportation planning process, and for other purposes.." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1717/.
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S. 1717, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1717/.
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[S. 1717: A bill to establish a community-driven decisionmaking pilot program to demonstrate enhanced community-based decisionmaking in the transportation planning process, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1717/)
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