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Safe Transit Accountability Act

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Sep 30, 2025

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Sep 30, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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Sep 30, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Sep 30, 2025

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Introduced in Senate

Sep 30, 2025

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2945 Introduced in Senate

(IS) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2945

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.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

September 30, 2025

Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

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.

This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Transit Accountability Act''.
SEC. 2.
Section 5329 (d) (5) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: `` (C) Final decisionmaker.
(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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