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Safe Transit Accountability Act
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.
Summary
This bill amends federal transit safety law to clarify the role of a transit agency's accountable executive in safety decisions. It designates this executive—the person with ultimate responsibility for the agency's safety and asset management plans—as the final decision-maker on all safety committee recommendations. The accountable executive may choose whether to implement risk mitigation strategies recommended by the safety committee and serves as the sole tiebreaker in any disputes within the committee.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
- Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4] (R-UT)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Lloyd Smucker’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $44,770
- DIRECT WIRE AND CABLE $13,200
- SELECT MEDICAL $11,600
- LANCASTER SCHOOL OF COSMETOLOGY $11,100
- SCENIC RIDGE $8,425
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Lloyd Smucker → · Outside spending →
Actions (3)
- Aug 6, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. · house
- Aug 5, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
- Aug 5, 2025 Introduced in House
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Text versions (1)
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Full text
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.
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.”. <all>
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