Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act

Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) from providing grants or funds to a state, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal, or other local government for use in any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for a motorcycle driver or passenger.

Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make grants to states that have a law which makes it unlawful for any individual on an operating motorcycle to be without a motorcycle helmet.

Revises grant eligibility requirements to eliminate the requirement that states achieve a certain rate of compliance with such law.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1861 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1861

     To stop motorcycle checkpoint funding, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2013

Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Ryan 
of Wisconsin, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois, Mr. 
Hultgren, Mr. Jones, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Griffin of Arkansas, and Mr. Terry) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To stop motorcycle checkpoint funding, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT RESTRICTION.

    The Secretary of Transportation may not provide a grant or any 
funds to a State, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal or 
other local government to be used for any program to check helmet usage 
or create checkpoints for an operator of motorcycle or passenger on a 
motorcycle.

SEC. 3. MOTORCYCLE SAFETY.

    Section 153 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the section heading by striking ``and motorcycle 
        helmets'';
            (2) in subsection (a) by striking ``such fiscal year--'' 
        and everything that follows through ``(2) a law'' and inserting 
        ``such fiscal year a law'';
            (3) in subsection (b) by striking ``State laws'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``a State law''; and
            (4) in subsection (f) by amending paragraphs (2) and (3) to 
        read as follows:
            ``(2) Second-year grants.--A State is eligible for a grant 
        under this section in a fiscal year succeeding the first fiscal 
        year in which a State receives a grant under this section only 
        if the State in the preceding fiscal year had in effect at all 
        times a State law described in subsection (a) and achieved a 
        rate of compliance with such law of not less than 50 percent.
            ``(3) Third-year grants.--A State is eligible for a grant 
        under this section in a fiscal year succeeding the second 
        fiscal year in which a State receives a grant under this 
        section only if the State in the preceding fiscal year had in 
        effect at all times a State law described in subsection (a) and 
        achieved a rate of compliance with such law of not less than 70 
        percent.''.

SEC. 4. HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS.

    Section 402(a)(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
striking clause (iv) and inserting the following:
                            ``(iv) to prevent accidents in order to 
                        reduce injuries and deaths resulting from 
                        accidents involving motor vehicles and 
                        motorcycles;''.
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