S. 2945

Summary

S. 2945, the Safe Transit Accountability Act, was introduced in the Senate on Sep 30, 2025 by Sen. Mike Lee (R). It was referred to Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs, and last saw action on Sep 30, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Record

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S. 2945 has no co-sponsors and has not gone to a roll call.

119 S2945 IS: Safe Transit Accountability Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-09-30
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 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 2945  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   September 30, 2025   Mr. Lee  introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs    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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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.

Sponsors

Sen. Mike Lee (R) sponsors S. 2945 alone.

Mike Lee

Sen. · R–UT · Sponsor

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Committees

S. 2945 went before 1 committee: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Referred To · Sep 30, 2025 · 465 Bills

Actions

S. 2945 has taken 2 actions since Sep 30, 2025.

Votes

S. 2945 has not gone to a roll call.

Related bills

1 bill is related to S. 2945, as Identical bill.

HR 4900Safe Transit Accountability ActAug 6, 2025 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. · Identical bill

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Titles

S. 2945 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

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

Lobbying

2 clients hired 3 firms and 21 registered lobbyists who named S. 2945 in 10 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 Transportation, Budget/Appropriations, Homeland Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Economics/Economic Development, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Railroads.

Clients

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Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 21.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files S. 2945 under Transportation and Public Works, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; S. 2945’s is Transportation and Public Works.

Source: congress.gov · legiscan.com