3.0.0 2496 2023-01-01T23:42:39Z 2023-01-01T23:42:39Z Senate S 2021-07-28 117 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-07-28T17:18:04Z 2021-07-28 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2021-07-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2021-07-28 True Transportation and Public Works Transportation and Public Works 00 2021-07-28 Introduced in Senate 2022-08-15T15:39:26Z Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act

This bill addresses road safety, with a particular focus on the safety of vulnerable road users (e.g., pedestrians, bicyclists, and users of scooters and other micromobility vehicles.)

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration must implement specified recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to improve safety for vulnerable road users. Additionally, if a state experiences an increase in the rate of fatalities and injuries of vulnerable road users, it must prioritize in its highway safety improvement program the implementation of NTSB pedestrian safety recommendations.

The bill also requires the Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office of the Department of Transportation to incorporate bicyclists and other vulnerable road users into research concerning the safe deployment of connected vehicle systems (i.e., systems that use data from short-range communication broadcasts and exchanges with other vehicles to sense other vehicles and road users and identify potential hazards).

]]> Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration to implement certain recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board relating to pedestrian safety, bicyclist safety, and speeding-related crashes involving passenger vehicles, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2496is/xml/BILLS-117s2496is.xml 2021-07-28 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.