California Enacts a Policy for Health Equity in Transportation Planning

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Built environment conditions can greatly impact a community’s health, and policymakers like Senator Bill Monning (D-California), are starting to take note of this.  In September 2012, California enacted AB 441, a bill that requires the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to include plans for projects that would help create health equity.

The bill requires the CTC to attach policies, practices, or projects, recommended by regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), to ensure health equity.

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Read the text to AB 441.

This press release from Sen. Monning’s office announces the passage of A.B. 441, in California, which seeks to increase health equity, by requiring transportation plans to document how the health residents will be affected by the implementation of transportation projects.