States gain flexibility to fight work zone crashes with existing safety funds.
S. 2910 — Work Zone Safety Enhancement Act · Filed by Tim Sheehy (R-MT) · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill allows states to use existing federal highway safety funds (Section 402 grants) to pay for work zone safety initiatives—including law enforcement patrols, driver education, alerting technology, worker training, and crash data collection. States must prioritize tribal governments and rural areas. The Government Accountability Office will study the program's effectiveness within two years.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is to expand the permitted uses of existing federal highway safety grants to include work zone crash reduction. It is a straightforward safety measure with no private carve-outs, tax provisions, or deregulation.
What the text implies
- States may reallocate existing Section 402 funds away from other highway safety programs (e.g., impaired driving, occupant protection) to work zone initiatives—the bill does not require new appropriations, so trade-offs among safety priorities are possible.
- The GAO study (due in 2 years) may reveal that work zone safety programs are ineffective or that funds would be better spent elsewhere, but the bill does not condition the program on study results.
- Rural and tribal areas receive priority, but the bill does not define 'prioritize' or establish enforcement mechanisms, leaving implementation discretion to states.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Work zone crashes kill and injure thousands annually. This bill gives states a tool to address that harm using funds already appropriated for highway safety, with a mandate to prioritize underserved areas (tribal and rural). No restrictions on citizens' rights or remedies; no new costs to the public.
Who stands to gain
- law enforcement agencies (overtime, equipment, operational support)
- technology vendors (variable message signs, radar speed trailers, connected-vehicle systems, intrusi
- driver education and training providers
- construction and flagging certification programs
Named in the bill
Section 402, title 23, United States Code, States (highway safety authorities), Tribal governments, Law enforcement agencies, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Secretary (of Transportation, implied)
Where it stands
- Sep 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 18, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $30,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 9 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Tim Sheehy, the sponsor, reported $394,325 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Utility Contractors Association (nuca) — $30,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 17, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,994 characters) on Sep 23, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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