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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require continued periodic reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety, and for other purposes.
Ms. Pou (for herself and Mr. Bost) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require continued periodic reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “State Actions For Employing Transportation Risk Assessments and Crossing Knowledge Strategies Act” or the “SAFE TRACKS Act”.
SEC. 2. Reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety.
Section 20167 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(A) in paragraph (4) by striking “and” at the end;
(B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
“(5) how the State will work with stakeholders, including railroads operating in and across the State, to reduce pedestrian fatalities, including suicides, along railroad right of way, in consultation with mental health and law enforcement agencies and entities; and”; and
(2) in subsection (b) by inserting “and every 5 years thereafter,” before “the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration”.