[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 695 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 695

 To improve the Safe Routes to School Program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 10, 2021

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the Safe Routes to School Program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Routes to All Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the safe routes to school program under section 1404 of 
        SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 402 note; Public Law 109-59) (referred to 
        in this subsection as the ``program'') should be expanded to 
        include high school students as well as primary and middle 
        school students;
            (2) the program helps ensure the safety of children; and
            (3) Congress should continue to provide funding for this 
        important program.
    (b) Safe Routes to School.--Section 1404 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 
402 note; Public Law 109-59) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``primary and middle'' 
        and inserting ``primary, middle, and high''; and
            (2) in subsection (k)(2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Primary and 
                middle'' and inserting ``Primary, middle, and high'';
                    (B) by striking ``primary and middle'' and 
                inserting ``primary, middle, and high''; and
                    (C) by striking ``eighth grade'' and inserting 
                ``12th grade''.
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