H.R. 4900

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4900 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4900

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.

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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

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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.''.
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