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Introduced June 24, 2025 by Alice Costandina Titus · Last progress June 24, 2025
The bill would substantially improve accessibility, mobility, transparency, and planning tools for people with disabilities and for multimodal networks, but it requires significant upfront and ongoing costs, creates implementation and equity challenges for smaller jurisdictions, and raises privacy and regulatory‑capacity risks.
People with disabilities (and senior riders) will get more reliable, timely, and flexible paratransit trips—including same‑day booking, dynamic routing, real‑time tracking, and pilots allowing 15‑minute mid‑trip stops—reducing waits and improving day‑to‑day mobility.
Improved mobility will help people with disabilities access work, childcare, and health care, supporting independence and greater employment participation.
Federal pilot grants covering up to 80% of project costs lower local funding barriers for testing service improvements, encouraging agencies to experiment with new models.
Local governments, transit agencies, contractors, taxpayers, and possibly riders could face higher upfront and ongoing costs—upgrades, compliance, staffing, and new operating expenses—that may be passed to taxpayers or users.
Smaller, rural, or under‑resourced jurisdictions may be disadvantaged in pilot selection or lack capacity to apply or implement changes, limiting equity gains and leaving some underserved areas behind.
Implementation and transition risks—temporary service disruptions during technology upgrades and scheduling complexity from mid‑trip stop pilots—could lengthen trip times or reduce reliability for some riders while systems change.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Requires pilots, enforceable pedestrian standards, complaint access and reporting, and open accessibility data to improve ADA transportation access; authorizes $75M/year for pilots (FY2025–2029).
Creates a set of programs, regulations, and reporting requirements to improve transportation access for people with disabilities. It funds and directs a one-stop paratransit pilot to test technology and service changes (including same-day booking, dynamic routing, and at least one 15-minute stop per trip), requires enforceable pedestrian-rights-of-way standards, expands accessible complaint processes and public posting by transit providers, and establishes an open-data accessibility pilot for multimodal access analysis. The bill authorizes up to $75 million per year for paratransit pilots (FY2025–2029), sets multiple agency deadlines (180 days to 18 months) for rules and complaint systems, requires annual public reporting on disability-related complaints, and directs agencies to report to Congress on pilot outcomes and nationwide feasibility.