H.R. 6464 · 116th Congress
Improving Access to Jobs Act
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GarcíaSponsor15 cosponsors · 15 D
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Barragán
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Cohen
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Grijalva
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Hayes
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Kirkpatrick
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Pressley
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Schakowsky
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Thompson
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Tlaib
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Fudge
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Foster12 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
This bill requires transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to employment. ( Access is the ability to travel by auto, transit, pedestrian, and bike networks measured in terms of travel times, with impedances for level of travel stress for active travel and costs for low income travelers.)
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Apr 7, 2020
Improving Access to Jobs Act
This bill requires transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to improve safe and convenient access to employment. (Access is the ability to travel by auto, transit, pedestrian, and bike networks measured in terms of travel times, with impedances for level of travel stress for active travel and costs for low income travelers.)
The Department of Transportation must establish minimum standards for states to use in determining and improving safe and convenient access to employment for all users by all modes of travel.
If a state fails to improve access, it must obligate 10% of federal transportation funds apportioned to such state from the previous fiscal year into its efforts to meet the minimum standards to improve access.
The bill prohibits metropolitan transportation planning organizations from approving a transportation improvement plan that increases the ratio of automobile to non-automobile access in urbanized areas.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Improving Access to Jobs Act
Latest action (Apr 8, 2020): Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works · Origin: House · Introduced: Apr 7, 2020
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.