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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the percentage of highway safety program funds required to be spent by political subdivisions, and for other purposes.
Mr. Sheehy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the percentage of highway safety program funds required to be spent by political subdivisions, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Rural Safety Administration Flexibility Act”.
SEC. 2. Highway safety programs.
Section 402(b) of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(C), by inserting “(or, in the case of a rural State, 20 percent)” after “40 percent”; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
“(3) DEFINITION OF RURAL STATE.—In this subsection, the term ‘rural State’ means any State, the population density of which is below the national average (as determined based on data from the most recent decennial Census).”.