H.R. 4900

119th CONGRESS 1st Session

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · August 5, 2025 · Sponsor: Mr. Smucker · Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Table of contents

• H.R. 4900
  • SEC. 1. Short title
  • SEC. 2. Safety committee

SEC. 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) 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) In this subparagraph, the term 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. accountable executive