Amends GS 136-211 to direct Rural Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) to develop and implement an attendance policy requiring attendance by members, or their designees, to at least half of the meetings held per calendar year. Directs each RTPO to maintain a record of attendance, and to post the record on its website, or to submit it to the Department of Transportation to post on the Department's website. Suspends areas or entities represented by members that fail to meet the minimum attendance requirement for the calendar year immediately subsequent to the year in which the member failed to meet the requirement. Effective January 1, 2018.