Senate Bill 661 establishes a local intersection safety program under the Department of Transportation (DOT) aimed at improving safety at signalized and stop-sign-controlled intersections. The program mandates that the DOT assist political subdivisions in enhancing intersection safety and provides a mechanism for these subdivisions to apply for improvements, reimbursements, or grants for intersections identified as having excessively high crash rates. The bill also requires the DOT to identify the 10 percent of counties with the highest intersection crash rates using traffic and crash data from 2019 to 2024, which will help prioritize the improvements funded under the program.

To support this initiative, the bill allocates $6,000,000 for the local intersection safety program, increasing the fiscal year 2025-26 budget for the DOT by this amount. The program aims to reduce intersection-related accidents by focusing resources on the most dangerous locations as identified by local authorities.