Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Active Transportation Safety Act
Sponsored By: Senator Chris Van Hollen
Introduced
Summary
Would prioritize and fund safer walking and biking projects by adding bicycle and pedestrian connectivity and vulnerable-road-user risk reduction to the Highway Safety Improvement Program. It would create new ways to get federal funding and to credit federal safety funds toward local cost shares when projects use proven countermeasures and planning tools.
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- Families, pedestrians, and cyclists: Would make it easier to build connections between existing bike and pedestrian segments and to fund projects that reduce risks for vulnerable road users identified in local safety plans.
- State and local transportation agencies: Would allow qualifying projects to receive up to 100 percent federal share and let non-federal matches be calculated across projects or credited when projects meet defined safety or planning criteria.
- Planners, tribes, and regional organizations: Would let pedestrian safety plans, Complete Streets plans, Vision Zero plans, ADA transition plans, Tribal plans, and other documented safety strategies count toward crediting and project eligibility, boosting local leverage for improvements.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More bike and pedestrian projects eligible
This bill would expand which bike and walking projects can get highway safety funds. It would add projects that connect two or more existing bike or pedestrian segments. It would also make projects that reduce risks to vulnerable road users eligible when they are listed in a qualifying program of projects. The bill would require DOT to consider proven bike and pedestrian safety countermeasures when setting funding priorities.
More federal funding for bike safety
This bill would make it easier to get federal money for bike and walking safety. It would allow up to a 100% federal share for qualifying projects paid with certain apportioned funds. It would let sponsors calculate local matches across projects or programs and let HSIP funds count toward local matches when projects meet safety or planning rules. If enacted, states and local governments would likely pay less out of pocket for these projects.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Cosponsors
Ron Johnson
WI • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Bill Hagerty
TN • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
John Reed
RI • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Edward Markey
MA • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Lisa Blunt Rochester
DE • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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