Existing State Law

California
In 2000, Governor Gray Davis signed a law to increase funding to the state Bicycle Transportation Account to $7 million per year to fund bicycle lanes, trails and improve poorly designed roads.  In addition, the Governor signed the Pedestrian Safety Act, which increases funding for roadway safety improvements for bicycles and pedestrians by increasing motorist fines and establishing an $8 million pedestrian safety fund for local government grants.

Introduced State Legislation

Maryland
HB 648 - Requests that the Maryland Department of Transportation and local transit agencies consult and evaluate the feasibility of adopting and implementing policies to promote and encourage the usage of mass transit by children, youth, and families.

HB763  - Requires, in each fiscal year, that 3% of the funds in the Transportation Trust Fund be dedicated for the construction and maintenance of bicycle ways and sidewalks. 

Georgia
SB 104 - Traffic Congestion relief bill requiring various actions so that at least 20 percent of state employees whose regular duty work stations are in counties of 400,000 or more will be using alternative means of commuting by the end of the year 2003.

Illinois
The  purpose of this Article (HB2263) is to establish the Transportation Resources for Innovative Projects Program  to prompt  the  creation  of  innovative  transportation to work strategies at  the local level, to assist in the implementation  of those strategies, to coordinate the local, State and federal funding of those programs,  and  to  access the maximum of federal transportation to work funding.

Delaware
The Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Bus Act is a proposed ballot initiative that has been filed with the Attorney General. It would appear on the November, 2002 ballot. The Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Bus Act is designed to provide transportation alternatives to make it possible for people to get to work and make other trips faster, transport their children more safely, maintain our streets and roads, build new transit and road infrastructure and reduce the air and water pollution impacts of transportation.