3.0.0 918 2023-01-11T19:45:47Z 2023-01-11T19:45:47Z Senate S S 2007-03-19 110 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-19T21:32:00Z Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act 110 1516 HR 2007-03-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. Identical bill CRS Text similarities House 2007-03-19 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2007-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. Y S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. 2007-03-19 True Transportation and Public Works Administrative procedure Armed Forces and National Security Authorization Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Collective bargaining Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal justice information Department of Transportation Discovery (Law) Economics and Public Finance Electronic surveillance Employee selection Environmental Protection Evidence (Law) Federal aid to transportation Federal preemption Freedom of information Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Health Hours of labor Identification of criminals Judicial review Labor and Employment Law Maintenance and repair Occupational health and safety Public meetings Radio Railroad employees Railroad equipment Railroad safety Right-of-way Science, Technology, Communications State laws Technological innovations Traffic accidents and safety Transportation of hazardous substances Transportation and Public Works 00 2007-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2007-06-12T16:26:35Z Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2011 for the railroad safety program, including a safety risk reduction program to be implemented as part of such program. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (or state Secretary) to prescribe investigative and surveillance activities to enforce rail safety regulations and orders.

Prohibits public disclosure of railroad safety risk reduction program records.

Requires railroad carriers and states to report to the Secretary, and update periodically, unreported highway-rail (including non-vehicular pathway-rail) grade crossings and public highway-rail (including non-vehicular public pathway) grade crossings within the United States.

Urges the development of new technology to prevent loss of life and injuries at highway-rail grade crossings.

Sets forth requirements: (1) prohibiting the judicial review of railroad safety regulations or orders on the ground that they impact security; (2) authorizing the Secretary to waive compliance of such regulations and orders if there is an emergency event, it is in the public interest, and consistent with railroad safety; (3) authorizing the Secretary to monitor railroad radio communications to prevent rail accidents, or as part of an accident investigation; (4) authorizing the Secretary to prohibit individuals who have violated hazardous material transportation safety laws from performing safety-sensitive functions in the railroad industry until specified conditions are met; (5) repealing and reserving codified federal hours of service laws, requiring the conversion of such laws to regulations, and authorizing the Secretary to amend such regulations to prevent and mitigate fatigue in individuals performing safety-critical train related duties; (6) establishing maximum number of hours a train employee may be on duty; and (7) authorizing the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration and designated employees access to criminal history records of railroad employees.

]]> Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal railroad safety laws for fiscal years 2008 through 2011, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act Short Titles as Introduced Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act Introduced in Senate 2007-03-19T04:00:00Z 2007-03-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.