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Designating November 30, 2025, as "Drive Safer Sunday".
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Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Designating November 30, 2025, as "Drive Safer Sunday".
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill prevents service interruptions and funds critical health, housing, defense, and disaster needs in the near term, but does so by committing large advance and emergency appropriations that increase near‑term federal outlays, limit some congressional flexibility and oversight, and create short‑term funding and transparency trade‑offs.
Supporting the goals and ideals of a National Move Over Law Day.
The bill promotes safer roads for responders and stranded motorists through low-cost public awareness efforts, but those education-focused measures may not be sufficient alone and could divert limited agency resources or require modest taxpayer-funded outreach spending.
Expressing support for the designation of May 2025 as "Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month".
The resolution highlights motorcycle safety, awareness, and potential environmental benefits, but it is non‑binding and relies on industry-sourced estimates, so its practical impact depends on follow-up policy or funding.
Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Active Transportation Safety Act
The bill increases federal support and incentives for pedestrian and bicycle projects—lowering local costs and improving safety through data-driven planning—while raising federal spending, risking reallocation away from other local transportation needs, and imposing planning burdens on smaller jurisdictions.
School Bus Safety Act of 2025
The bill would substantially improve student safety on school buses through mandatory advanced safety features and federal grants to help pay for upgrades, but it imposes large upfront and operational costs on manufacturers, districts, and taxpayers and creates implementation and equity risks.
RTP Full Funding Act of 2025
The bill aims to increase transparency and potentially boost funding for recreational trails, especially benefiting trail users and recreation-dependent local economies, but does so at the risk of diverting limited federal transportation funds and adding administrative complexity that could spark disputes.
FLAP Reauthorization Act
The bill provides predictable, multi-year Highway Trust Fund support to improve road access and safety around federal lands, benefiting state and local governments and rural users, but does so by using Highway Trust Fund resources (outside the Mass Transit Account) which may divert funds from other highway priorities, increase budgetary pressure, and offer no help for urban mass transit needs.
Responder and Recovery Safety in EV Fires Act
The bill creates a centralized EV-fire incident database and volunteer advisory forum that should improve firefighter safety, emergency response, industry coordination, and public transparency, but it raises privacy and oversight concerns and relies on uncompensated members and existing DOT funds, potentially limiting participation and shifting resources.
Highway Formula Fairness Act
The bill increases predictability and protects states with higher recent HTF contributions from sharp cuts, but does so by anchoring shares to FY2012 and HTF-based floors—benefiting some states while risking underfunding and equity issues for growing, smaller, or electrification-advancing states.
SAFER Transport Act
The bill strengthens safety, fraud prevention, and regulatory clarity across air and surface transportation—helping carriers, shippers, and enforcement agencies—while imposing new compliance, data-sharing, and criminal-exposure risks that may raise costs and disproportionately burden small businesses and immigrant drivers.
Need for Speed Act
The bill creates a powerful national data tool and funds research to improve transportation planning, safety, and freight efficiency, but does so at a modest Highway Trust Fund cost while raising privacy risks, administrative burdens, and the potential for uneven benefits between urban and rural areas.
Preventing Roadside and Work Zone Deaths Act of 2026
The bill strengthens crash-data standardization, interagency coordination, and protections for people in disabled vehicles—improving evidence-based safety—at the cost of added administrative and IT burdens for state and local agencies and a risk of diverting resources or prompting fund reallocations.
Miranda’s Law
The bill creates a national, standardized employer-notification system that can improve school-bus and CDL safety and reduce redundant record checks, but it increases employer oversight, privacy and data‑security risks, and costs/licensing burdens for states, districts, and small employers while shifting some oversight responsibilities onto a centralized service.
SECURES Act of 2026
The bill increases student safety by requiring seat belts and encouraging detection technologies on school buses but shifts significant upfront and ongoing costs onto school districts, taxpayers, and manufacturers.
Balance the Highway Trust Fund Act
The bill prioritizes protecting Highway Trust Fund solvency and predictable, revenue-aligned obligation authority—improving fiscal safeguards and planning for some—at the cost of tighter near-term federal funding, greater uncertainty for projects and transit agencies, and potential cost-shifting to state and local governments.
Stop Underrides Act 2.0
The bill would substantially increase underride safety and produce clearer, data‑driven rulemaking—reducing deaths and injuries—but does so at the cost of significant compliance and government implementation expenses, with disproportionate short‑term burdens on small carriers and potential procedural delays.
Enforce Immigration or Lose Transportation Act
The bill uses federal highway funding to push states toward immigration-related identity checks that may improve ID verification and some public-safety outcomes, but at the cost of denying licenses to some residents, risking major funding losses and project delays, eroding trust with immigrant communities, and triggering administrative and legal burdens.
AV Safety Data Act
The bill significantly expands public and regulatory access to ADS/ADAS exposure and incident data—improving oversight and safety analysis—while imposing compliance costs and raising privacy, security, and proprietary-competition risks.
Maximizing Transportation Efficiency Act
The bill expands and targets federal support for transportation demand management—broadening travel options, especially for smaller jurisdictions and rural areas, and reducing congestion and emissions—but does so by reallocating limited infrastructure funds and creating implementation and equity risks that could leave some large capital projects and vulnerable populations under-supported.
Transportation Project Accountability Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and performance-focused oversight for large transportation projects, which can improve accountability and fund effectiveness, but it imposes new costs on state agencies, may slow some work, and leaves smaller yet important projects outside the new reporting regime.
Roadway Safety Modernization Act of 2025
The bill promotes data-driven, interoperable safety and freight improvements and stronger privacy guidance, but does so at added cost, with privacy risks and unequal capacity to implement that may favor technology-heavy solutions over locally preferred approaches.
Wildlife Crossings Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill directs dedicated federal funding to build wildlife crossings that improve road safety and habitat connectivity—particularly benefiting rural and Tribal communities—while increasing demands on the Highway Trust Fund and shifting some cost and oversight dynamics away from local stakeholders.
Stay in Your Lane Act
The bill increases safety, transparency, and regulatory enforceability by requiring manufacturers to define and publish exact ODDs and enabling NHTSA oversight, but does so at the cost of added industry compliance expenses, potential higher vehicle prices and narrowed system functionality, plus some proprietary/security exposure for manufacturers.
Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act
The bill aims to protect youth and public safety and improve federal and state capacity by setting clearer federal rules, funding prevention and surveillance, and enabling enforcement—at the cost of substantial new federal spending, new compliance burdens and penalties for industry, legal uncertainty, potential privacy concerns, and reduced state flexibility.
REPAIR Infrastructure Act
The bill channels new, sustained federal funding toward reconnecting communities and multimodal, equitable projects—especially benefiting disadvantaged, rural, and Tribal areas—while creating funding trade-offs, administrative burdens, and politically sensitive land‑use constraints that may divert resources from traditional highway and freight priorities.
Motorcycle Safety Awareness Act of 2025
The bill improves road safety and clarifies motorcycle law education by making motorcyclist-awareness training a required criterion for driver education and state highway safety programs, but it shifts costs and administrative burdens to states and local education agencies and reduces flexibility in how States prioritize safety investments.
TRAFFIC Act of 2025
The bill increases public and victim safety and creates uniform federal disqualification standards by permanently barring convicted human traffickers from transportation credentials, but it also permanently excludes some people from transportation employment, risks labor shortages and higher costs, and raises fairness and due‑process concerns.
Secure Commercial Driver Licensing Act of 2025
The bill standardizes and tightens federal CDL/CLP definitions, testing, and eligibility to improve uniformity and likely safety, but imposes administrative and compliance costs on states, risks legal friction from increased federal authority, and may sharply limit access to commercial driving for non‑English speakers and new entrants, tightening the driver supply.
Connor’s Law
The bill aims to improve clarity and enforcement during roadside inspections by requiring English communication, but that benefit comes with substantial risks of job loss for limited-English drivers, higher costs and disruptions for carriers, and potential biased or inconsistent enforcement.
