US Congress Senate Bill 436 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-25 - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires grant recipients under the public transportation safety program who operate a fixed route bus service to (1) develop a risk reduction program for bus operations to improve safety by reducing the number and rates of accidents, injuries, assaults on bus operators, and fatalities; (2) submit the program to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for review and approval; and (3) implement the approved program. DOT shall require grant recipients who operates a rail fixed guideway public transportation system that is not subject to regulation by the Federal Railroad Administration to (1) develop a risk reduction program for assaults on rail workers to improve safety by reducing the number and severity of assaults on such workers; (2) submit the program to DOT for review and approval; and (3) implement the approved program. A grant recipient shall report to DOT any information on each assault on a transit worker for inclusion in the National Transit Database.

Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act

Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-25	Senate	Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
2019-02-11	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

HB1139 (Same As) 2019-02-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/436/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s436/BILLS-116s436is.pdf