HB1607 – Allows the Safe Routes to Schools program’s funding to be used for planning, developing, and installing safe routes to new schools being constructed.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Rude (R; 16th District; Walla Walla)
Current status – Referred to Appropriations.
Next step would be – Scheduling a hearing.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
The bill would have appropriations to the Safe Routes to Schools program made out of the general fund rather than from the Multi-Modal Account and the Transportation Partnership Account, and would allow the program to pay for the planning, development, and installation of safe routes from nearby neighborhoods to schools under construction as well as to existing schools. It would require the Secretary of Transportation and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to report to the Legislature on whether administration of the program should be shifted from the Department of Transportation to OSPI, and (if they recommended a transfer) on options for one that would satisfy Federal requirements.