ESCAPE Act

Summary

Enhancing the Strength and Capacity of America's Primary Evacuation routes Act or the ESCAPE Act This bill directs the Department of Transportation to (1) establish criteria for eligible entities to identify mass evacuation routes, (2) establish a competitive grant program to provide grants for resilience projects that strengthen and protect evacuation routes that are essential for providing and supporting mass evacuations caused by emergency events, and (3) provide grants to resilience projects that ensure the ability of the evacuation route to provide safe passage during a mass evacuation and reduce the risk of damage to evacuation routes as a result of future emergency events.

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Timeline

1. 20 May 2019

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 20 May 2019

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 20 May 2019 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 20 May 2019

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• Edward Markey · D · Sponsor
• Elizabeth Warren · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · D · Cosponsor
• · sscm00 · Standing

Related records

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• related to ← ESCAPE Act
• related to ← America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019