The Rural Safety Administration Flexibility Act modifies federal highway safety funding requirements to give rural states greater flexibility in how they spend certain safety program dollars. Currently, states must spend 40 percent of their highway safety funds through local governments and other political subdivisions, but this bill allows rural states—defined as those with below-average population density—to reduce that requirement to just 20 percent. This change means rural states can keep more safety funding under state-level control rather than distributing it to local jurisdictions. The bill affects highway safety programs under federal law but includes no specific new funding allocations or implementation timelines beyond referencing population density data from the most recent U.S. Census.
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