Improving Access to Jobs Act
Latest action · Apr 8, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 7, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 15
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 7, 2020 to Apr 28, 2020, with 12 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Apr 7, 2020 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Apr 17, 2020 | |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Apr 17, 2020 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Apr 28, 2020 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 8, 2020Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Apr 7, 2020Introduced in House
- Apr 7, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- Apr 7, 2020Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E356)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6463 | Improving Access to Services Act | Related bill | Apr 8, 2020 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
Text 1
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- Apr 7, 2020Introduced in House
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