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Creates federal programs and rules to make transportation more accessible for people with disabilities. It funds and pilots updated paratransit services (including permitting a 15+ minute mid-trip stop and encouraging same-day/on-demand options), requires enforceable pedestrian facility standards, sets up an accessibility data pilot for planning agencies, and improves how disability discrimination complaints are accepted and reported. The bill directs the Department of Transportation and the Attorney General to issue regulations and run pilots on set timelines, requires public posting of complaint information by transit providers, mandates data collection and sharing for selected pilots, and authorizes federal funding to support implementation and pilots through specified fiscal years.
The bill advances accessibility and accountability—improving paratransit service, built environment standards, data for equitable planning, and clearer legal definitions—but does so at measurable cost and administrative burden, risks to privacy, and with an implementation path that may leave smaller and rural providers behind unless additional funding and safeguards are provided.
People with disabilities will get more reliable, flexible paratransit (same‑day booking, real‑time tracking, dynamic routing, and at least 15‑minute mid‑ride stops), improving access to work, health care, and errands.
People with disabilities (and everyone who walks) will benefit from enforceable federal design standards for new sidewalks and curb ramps, reducing future retrofits and litigation uncertainty for jurisdictions.
Local transit agencies get federal financial and technical support (pilot funding with up to 80% federal share) to test one‑stop paratransit and technology innovations, lowering local risk to try new service models.
Local, state, and transit agencies (and ultimately local taxpayers) will face higher costs to adopt new technologies, implement accessible construction standards, update websites/complaint systems, and cover local funding shares—straining budgets especially in poorer jurisdictions.
Smaller and rural transit providers and many communities risk being left behind because they may struggle to afford or deploy advanced technologies, only a subset of jurisdictions are in the pilot, and an eight‑year sunset delays broad rollout.
Requirements to collect and share detailed trip, rider, and disaggregated accessibility data raise privacy and data‑handling concerns for riders and could create risks if not properly anonymized or secured.
Introduced June 24, 2025 by Alice Costandina Titus · Last progress June 24, 2025