[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3728 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3728

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to take affirmative action to 
 ensure meaningful language access to persons who are limited English 
                              proficient.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2025

  Mr. Mullin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to take affirmative action to 
 ensure meaningful language access to persons who are limited English 
                              proficient.

    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 ``Language Access in Transit Act''.

SEC. 2. NONDISCRIMINATION IN LANGUAGE ACCESS.

    Section 5332 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c) by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) The Secretary shall take affirmative action to ensure 
        all persons receiving financial assistance under this chapter 
        provide meaningful language access to services provided with 
        such financial assistance to persons who are limited English 
        proficient.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d) by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)(3)''.
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