H.R. 4900

Summary

H.R. 4900, the Safe Transit Accountability Act, was introduced in the House on Aug 5, 2025 by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R) with 1 co-sponsor. It was referred to Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, and last saw action on Aug 6, 2025: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

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Text

H.R. 4900 has 1 co-sponsor.

119 HR 4900 IH: Safe Transit Accountability Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-08-05
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 4900  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    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.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Safe Transit Accountability Act  .
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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.
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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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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.

Sponsors

Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R) sponsors H.R. 4900, and 1 member has co-sponsored it from the day it was introduced.

Lloyd Smucker

Rep. · R–PA-11 · Sponsor

Introduced Aug 5, 2025

Burgess Owens

Rep. · R–UT-4 · Co-sponsor

Joined Aug 5, 2025 · Original

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Committees

H.R. 4900 went before 2 committees: Highways and Transit Subcommittee and Transportation and Infrastructure.

Highways and Transit Subcommittee

Highways and Transit Subcommittee

Referred to · Aug 6, 2025 · 174 Bills

Transportation and Infrastructure

Transportation and Infrastructure

Referred To · Aug 5, 2025 · 156 Bills

Actions

H.R. 4900 has taken 3 actions since Aug 5, 2025, the latest on Aug 6, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 4900 has not gone to a roll call.

Related bills

1 bill is related to H.R. 4900, as Identical bill.

S 2945Safe Transit Accountability ActSep 30, 2025 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · Identical bill

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Titles

H.R. 4900 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Safe Transit Accountability Act — Display Title
• Safe Transit Accountability Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• 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. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

4 clients hired 5 firms and 30 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 4900 in 16 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Budget/Appropriations, Transportation, Homeland Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace.

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Firms

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Lobbyists

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Filings

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Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 4900 under Transportation and Public Works, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 4900’s is Transportation and Public Works.

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