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Public safety funding for the Utah Highway Patrol would see changes to both its legal structure and its budget for the fiscal year beginning July 2026. The bill would allow the Legislature to directly appropriate money into the Motor Vehicle Safety Impact Restricted Account, which funds new trooper hiring, trooper overtime pay, and safety equipment, and it would expand how money in the Transportation Investment Fund of 2005 (currently used mainly for road construction) can be spent, allowing it to also pay for operating state highways and enforcing traffic laws on roads that were built or improved with that fund's money. For fiscal year 2027, the bill provides $5 million for Highway Patrol field operations and new trooper hiring, drawn from $2 million in the Transportation Investment Fund and $3 million in the Motor Vehicle Safety Impact Restricted Account; the $3 million added to that restricted account comes from a General Fund transfer that is offset by cutting $3 million in General Fund support for Fire and Rescue Training at Utah Valley University.