Section 1906 racial profiling data collection grant (23 C.F.R. § 1300.28; SEC. 1906, PUB

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles $1.15 million on October 1, 2025, under the Incentive Grant Program to Prohibit Racial Profiling (CFDA 20.611), a formula grant supporting collection and maintenance of data on traffic stops, evaluation of results, and programs to reduce the impact of traffic stops consistent with federal regulations.

The award funds activities to maintain and allow public inspection of statistical information regarding the race and ethnicity of drivers for each motor vehicle stop made on public roads in Virginia (except those classified as local or minor rural roads), in accordance with Section 1906 of the SAFETEA-LU Act. The grant encourages Virginia to enact and enforce laws prohibiting racial profiling in traffic law enforcement on federal-aid highways and supports countermeasure strategies designed to help reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

The Virginia DMV, headquartered in Richmond, administers the grant through its Grants Management Division. The period of performance runs through September 30, 2029. The DMV is obligated to submit annual certifications and may qualify for the grant by providing official documents demonstrating that the state maintains and allows public inspection of racial and ethnicity data for motor vehicle stops, or by providing satisfactory assurances that it will undertake such activities during the fiscal year. The recipient must retain records for three years following submission of a final expenditure report and all project deliverables.

L. 109-59, as amended) ― grant to support collection and maintenance of data on traffic stops, evaluation of the results of that data, and programs to reduce the impact of traffic stops consistent with 23 C.F.R. § 1300.28(d). Section 1906 funding is intended to encourage states to enact and enforce laws that prohibit the use of racial profiling in the enforcement of traffic laws on federal-aid highways, except those classified as local or minor rural roads, and to maintain and allow public inspection of statistical information regarding the race and ethnicity of the driver for each motor vehicle stop in the state. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the state and territorial highway safety offices based on an approved triennial highway safety plan that details problem identification, public participation and engagement, performance measures, countermeasure strategies for programming funds and an approved annual grant application that details planned projects using identified countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.