Safe Transit Accountability Act

Bill: 119-hr-4900
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Smucker, Lloyd [R-PA-11]
Introduced: 2025-08-05
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2025-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4900 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Transit Accountability Act . 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. .