Safe Transit Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4900 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4900

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize the accountable 
   executive of a safety committee to resolve disputes of the safety 
                   committee, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 2025

Mr. Smucker (for himself and Mr. Owens) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize the accountable 
   executive of a safety committee to resolve disputes of the safety 
                   committee, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Transit Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. SAFETY COMMITTEE.

    Section 5329(d)(5) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Final decisionmaker.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The accountable 
                        executive of a recipient shall determine 
                        whether to implement the risk-based mitigation 
                        or strategies recommended by the Safety 
                        Committee and shall serve as the sole 
                        tiebreaker of any Safety Committee dispute 
                        resolution procedures.
                            ``(ii) Accountable executive.--In this 
                        subparagraph, the term `accountable executive' 
                        means the single, identifiable person who has 
                        ultimate responsibility for carrying out the 
                        Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan under 
                        this section of a transit agency, 
                        responsibility for carrying out the transit 
                        agency's Transit Asset Management Plan, and 
                        control or direction over the human and capital 
                        resources needed to develop and maintain both 
                        the transit agency's Public Transportation 
                        Agency Safety Plan, in accordance with this 
                        subsection, and the transit agency's Transit 
                        Asset Management Plan in accordance with 
                        section 5326.''.
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