Sec. 3002. Highway safety programs

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Section 402 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (2)(A)— in clause

(ii)by striking occupant protection devices (including the use of safety belts and child restraint systems) and inserting safety belts ; in clause

(vii)by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; and by inserting after clause

(viii)the following: to encourage more widespread and proper use of child safety seats (including booster seats) with an emphasis on underserved populations; to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from drivers of motor vehicles not moving to another traffic lane or reducing the speed of such driver’s vehicle when passing an emergency, law enforcement, or other vehicle stopped or parked on or near the roadway; and to increase driver awareness of the dangers of leaving an unattended child or other occupant in a vehicle when there is a risk of hyperthermia; ; and by adding at the end the following: States which have legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana shall consider programs in addition to the programs described in paragraph (2)(A) to educate drivers on the risks associated with marijuana-impaired driving and to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from individuals driving motor vehicles while impaired by marijuana. ; in subsection (c)(4)— by striking subparagraph (C); by redesignating subparagraph

(B)as subparagraph (D); and by inserting after subparagraph

(A)the following: Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), a State may expend funds apportioned to that State under this section to carry out a program to purchase, operate, or maintain an automated traffic system in a work zone or school zone. Any automated traffic enforcement system installed pursuant to subparagraph

(B)shall comply with— Speed Enforcement Camera Systems Operational Guidelines (DOT HS 810 916, March 2008); or Red Light Camera Systems Operational Guidelines (FHWA–SA–05–002, January 2005). ; and in subsection (n)— by striking and all that follows through Public transparency The Secretary and inserting the following: Public transparency.— The Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following: In carrying out the requirements of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish a public website that is easily accessible, navigable, and searchable for the information required under paragraph (1), in order to foster greater transparency in approved State highway safety programs. The website established under subparagraph

(A)shall— include each State highway safety plan and annual report submitted and approved by the Secretary under subsection (k); provide a means for the public to search such website for State highway safety program content required in subsection (k), including— performance measures required by the Secretary under paragraph (3)(A); progress made toward meeting the State’s performance targets for the previous year; program areas and expenditures; and a description of any sources of funds other than funds provided under this section that the State proposes to use to carry out the State highway safety plan of such State. .