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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.
Drivers, driving-students, motorcyclists, and scooter riders will receive mandatory motorcyclist-awareness training in driver education and testing, improving road safety and lowering crash risk.
State departments of transportation and highway-safety programs will be incentivized to strengthen safety efforts and attention (and potentially funding) by meeting the added criterion tied to §405 benefits.
New drivers will be taught State-specific motorcycle and scooter laws (e.g., lane-splitting), reducing legal confusion, traffic violations, and related crashes.
State governments, motor vehicle agencies, and schools will incur administrative, curriculum-development, and testing costs to add and implement the new motorcyclist-awareness material.
Smaller or resource-limited States and school districts may face implementation challenges meeting the two-year window, diverting resources and delaying compliance or other safety programs.
Requiring motorcyclist-awareness as a specific criterion for certain federal highway-safety benefits reduces States' flexibility to prioritize other local safety needs when allocating §405-related efforts.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Gary C. Peters · Last progress November 20, 2025
Amends federal highway safety grant criteria to require states to meet at least three qualifying criteria—one of which must be a driver education/driver safety course requirement that includes motorcyclist awareness instruction and testing. The driver education content must cover State-specific motorcycle laws (for example, lane-splitting and lane-filtering) and share-the-road principles for motorcyclists and scooter riders. The new rule takes effect two years after enactment and does not provide new federal funding.