State Actions For Employing Transportation Risk Assessments and Crossing Knowledge Strategies Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5783 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5783

 To amend title 49, United States Code, to require continued periodic 
 reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 17, 2025

Ms. Pou (for herself and Mr. Bost) 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 require continued periodic 
 reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety, 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 ``State Actions For Employing 
Transportation Risk Assessments and Crossing Knowledge Strategies Act'' 
or the ``SAFE TRACKS Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS ON HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSING SAFETY.

    Section 20167 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (4) by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph 
                (6); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) how the State will work with stakeholders, including 
        railroads operating in and across the State, to reduce 
        pedestrian fatalities, including suicides, along railroad right 
        of way, in consultation with mental health and law enforcement 
        agencies and entities; and''; and
            (2) in subsection (b) by inserting ``and every 5 years 
        thereafter,'' before ``the Administrator of the Federal 
        Railroad Administration''.
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