S944119th CongressWALLET

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.

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

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