[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2128 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2128

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to improve transit safety.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2021

  Mr. Brown (for himself, Mrs. Demings, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Smith of New 
Jersey, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 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 improve transit safety.

    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 ``Public Transit Safety Improvement 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SAFETY PROGRAM.

    Section 5329 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A) by inserting ``the safety 
                committee established under paragraph (4), and 
                subsequently,'' before ``the board of directors'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (G) by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the 
                following:
                    ``(H) a requirement that the safety committee only 
                approve a safety plan under subparagraph (A) if such 
                plan stays within such recipient's fiscal budget''; and
            (2) by adding at the end of subsection (d) the following:
            ``(4) Safety committee.--For purposes of the approval 
        process of an agency safety plan under paragraph (1), the 
        safety committee shall be convened by a joint labor-management 
        process and consist of an equal number of--
                    ``(A) frontline employee representatives, selected 
                by the labor organization representing the plurality of 
                the frontline workforce employed by the recipient or if 
                applicable a contractor to the recipient; and
                    ``(B) employer or State representatives.''.
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