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<dc:title>119 HR 4897 IH: Blue Envelope Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-08-05</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4897</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250805">August 5, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="N000147">Ms. Norton</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HPW00">Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend section 148 of title 23, United States Code, to ensure blue envelope programs are eligible for certain safety project funding, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HA7C792821F4C40B4829523B06FAFA11E" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H85D1FF5765C74FDFA30B23A94901BAA5" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Blue Envelope Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H95F91E2AACBA410C83B40D75BD973191"><enum>2.</enum><header>Highway safety improvement program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 148(a)(11)(B)(ii) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>laws;</quote> and inserting <quote>laws, including a project to improve interactions between a motor vehicle operator who has difficulty communicating through speech and a law enforcement officer during a motor vehicle stop, commonly referred to as a <quote>blue envelope program</quote>;</quote>.</text> </section> 
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