S 1717
117th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
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.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 19, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 19, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1