Sec. 2. Program on illegal passing incidents
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shall establish a program to provide grants to eligible entities to carry out a demonstration project to monitor and collect data on incidents of illegal passing of stopped school buses. Upon the establishment of the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall solicit applications, in such form and requiring such information as the Administrator determines is appropriate, from eligible entities to participate in the program.
Not later than 180 days after the deadline for submitting applications under subsection (b), as determined by the Administrator, the Administrator shall provide grants to not more than 12 eligible entities to carry out a demonstration project under the program established under this section. In selecting eligible entities to receive a grant under this section, the Administrator shall— select entities located in— urban, rural, and suburban communities; and geographic areas that account for varying weather patterns; ensure that a range of socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds are represented across the selected entities; select at least 1 entity that has publicly operated school bus fleets; select at least 1 entity that has privately operated school bus fleets; select entities that have the ability to work cooperatively with local law enforcement to carry out a project described in subsection (d); select at least 1 entity that is a tribal educational agency; and select— at least 1 entity that has in place a local campaign to combat incidents of illegal passing of stopped school buses; at least 1 entity that has in place countermeasures to stop such incidents; and at least 1 entity that does not have in place such a campaign or such countermeasures.
A recipient of a grant under this section shall use such grant to carry out a project to monitor and collect data on incidents of illegal passing of stopped school buses, including a description of— the number of incidents that occur each day; traffic patterns or characteristics of locations in which such incidents occur, including— road conditions; time and location of such incidents; lighting and weather conditions at the time such incidents occurred; and the side of the school bus on which such incidents occurred; the drivers involved in such incidents, including— the age and sex of the driver; a description of whether any law enforcement action was taken against the driver and, if so, a summary of such action; whether a driver has a record of traffic citations; and whether distracted driving was involved in such incidents; and any other information the Administrator determines is able to be collected in order to prepare the public safety messaging campaign required under section 3.
Upon completion of a demonstration project carried out with a grant provided under this section, a grant recipient shall submit to the Administrator a report containing the data collected during such project. Not later than 1 year after the Administrator provides grants to eligible entities under subsection (c)(1), the Administrator shall prepare a report describing the findings of the demonstration projects carried out with such grants and submit such report to Congress. In this section, the term eligible entity means a local educational agency (as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary And Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ) or a tribal educational agency (as defined in section 6132(b) of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 7452(b) )).
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