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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
The bill amends federal transit law to clarify the authority of the accountable executive of a transit agency in relation to the agency's safety committee. The accountable executive becomes the final decision-maker for determining whether to implement risk-based mitigation strategies recommended by the safety committee and serves as the sole tiebreaker for any safety committee disputes. The accountable executive is defined as the single person with ultimate responsibility for the agency's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan and Transit Asset Management Plan, and control over the resources needed for both.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (R-UT)
Actions (2)
- Sep 30, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
- Sep 30, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
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. 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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