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The bill reallocates existing highway safety funds toward work‑zone enforcement, training, education, and alerting technologies to reduce crashes and protect workers, while trading off reduced flexibility in other state safety programs and raising concerns about uneven implementation, privacy, and higher enforcement costs for motorists.
Drivers, construction and transportation workers: increased funding for high-visibility enforcement, safety patrols, and worker training/certification to reduce work-zone crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
State and local agencies and motorists: funding for alerting and intrusion-mitigation technologies (including pilot projects) to better warn motorists and prevent incursions into work zones.
Commercial drivers and the public: authorization for states to develop driver-education and refresher modules to improve driver behavior around work zones.
Taxpayers and state highway safety programs: redirecting portions of §402 funds to work-zone activities could reduce funding available for other state highway safety programs and priorities.
Drivers, construction-workers, and rural communities: implementation quality and prioritization may vary by state, producing uneven levels of protection and benefits across the country.
Drivers and state governments: collecting near‑miss and crash data and deploying connected-vehicle alerts could raise data-privacy concerns and create ongoing maintenance and operational costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Timothy Patrick Sheehy · Last progress September 18, 2025
Authorizes States to use a portion of Highway Safety §402 funds for activities that reduce crashes, injuries, and deaths in and near road work zones. Permitted uses include law enforcement overtime and equipment, safety patrols, driver and commercial training, alerting and intrusion-mitigation technologies (including pilots), training/certification for flaggers and construction staff, and collecting and evaluating work‑zone crash and near‑miss data. States must prioritize assistance to Tribal governments and rural areas. The Comptroller General must report to Congress within two years on the effectiveness of these programs.