Highway Safety Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Highway Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to carry out various highway safety programs. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Transportation to assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase highway safety. Requires each State to have a highway safety program to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. Requires each State to achieve conformity in laws and practices which affect interstate motorists. Sets forth an apportionment formula for Federal funding of State highway safety programs. Directs each State to authorize its political subdivisions to develop and carry out local highway safety programs. Requires that at least 40 percent of a State's apportionment for highway safety programs be available for expenditures by the State's political subdivisions to carry out local highway safety programs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement where there is an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify such an expenditure. Requires each State highway safety agency to annually submit its proposed highway safety program for the e…