Moving Forward Act
Latest action. Received in the Senate.
Moving Forward Act
DIVISION A--FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021
This division extends FY2020 enacted levels through FY2021 for federal-aid highway, transit, and safety programs. It also provides additional contract authority in FY2021 for (1) the Federal Highway Administration, (2) the Federal Transit Administration, (3) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration highway safety programs, and (4) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration motor carrier safety programs.
Among other provisions, the division
includes additional routes within the Central Texas Corridor, a high priority corridor on the National Highway System;
includes the Central Louisiana Corridor and the Central Mississippi Corridor as high priority corridors in such system; and
directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to report on the unique challenges that residents in areas of concentrated poverty face when riding public transportation.
DIVISION B--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
This division reauthorizes for FY2022-FY2025 several surface transportation programs, including the federal-aid highway program, transit programs, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and rail programs.
Among other provisions, this division
addresses climate change, including strategies to reduce the climate change impacts of the surface transportation system and conduct a vulnerability assessment to identify opportunities to enhance the resilience of the surface transportation system and ensure the efficient use of federal resources;
revises Buy America procurement requirements for highways, mass transit, and rail;
establishes a rebuild rural grant program to improve the safety, state-of-good repair, and connectivity of transportation infrastructure in rural communities;
expands the DOT highway safety high visibility enforcement program;
require DOT to carry out a safe routes to school program;
sets forth motor vehicle safety standards that require new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with an automatic emergency braking system, establishes performance requirements for such braking systems, and requires the systems to be used while the commercial vehicles are in operation;
directs DOT to establish a pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and achieve and maintain a state of good repair in the surface transportation system;
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PETER DEFAZIO (D-OR) introduced it on June 11, 2020, and 129 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They are 129 Democrats.
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- HouseReceived in the Senate.
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