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The bill increases motorcyclist awareness and rider safety by encouraging states to teach share-the-road principles and offers grant incentives, but requires states and school systems to absorb administrative and curriculum-update costs and manage complexity from state-specific laws.
Drivers and students will receive standardized motorcyclist-awareness instruction so more road users learn to recognize and safely share roadways with motorcyclists and scooters, which should reduce crash risk for riders.
States that adopt the new motorcyclist-awareness curriculum become eligible for federal motorcycle safety grants, creating a funding incentive to implement awareness programs and related training.
State education and motor vehicle agencies — especially smaller or resource-constrained states and school districts — will face costs and administrative burdens to update curricula, train instructors, and modify testing to comply within the two-year window, which could strain budgets and delay implementation.
Including state-specific motorcycle laws (for example, lane-splitting rules) makes a standardized curriculum harder to maintain and requires frequent updates when laws change, complicating administration across jurisdictions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires states seeking certain motorcycle safety grants to add motorcyclist-awareness instruction and testing to driver education and raises required grant criteria from two to three.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Gary C. Peters · Last progress November 20, 2025
Changes to federal motorcycle-safety grant rules require states to meet one additional criterion to be eligible and add a new driver-education requirement. States must include motorcyclist-awareness instruction and testing in driver education and driver safety courses, covering State-specific motorcycle laws (such as lane-splitting or lane-filtering) and share-the-road principles; the change takes effect two years after enactment.