Sec. 2602. Public transportation safety program
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Section 5329 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (b)(2)(C)(ii)— in subclause
(I)by striking and at the end; in subclause
(II)by striking the semicolon and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: innovations in driver assistance technologies and driver protection infrastructure where appropriate, and a reduction in visibility impairments that contribute to pedestrian fatalities; ; in subsection (b)(2)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(D)and
(E)as subparagraphs
(E)and (F), respectively; and by adding at the end the following: in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, precautionary and reactive actions required to ensure public and personnel safety and health during an emergency as defined in section 5324. . in subsection (d)— in paragraph (1)— in subparagraph
(A)by inserting the safety committee established under paragraph (4), and subsequently, before the board of directors ; in subparagraph
(C)by striking public, personnel, and property and inserting public and personnel to injuries, assaults, fatalities, and, consistent with guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infectious diseases, and strategies to minimize the exposure of property ; by striking subparagraph
(G)and inserting the following: a comprehensive staff training program for the operations and maintenance personnel and personnel directly responsible for safety of the recipient that includes— the completion of a safety training program; continuing safety education and training; and de-escalation training; 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 a risk reduction program for transit operations to improve safety by reducing the number and rates of accidents, injuries, and assaults on transit workers using data submitted to the National Transit Database, including— a reduction of vehicular and pedestrian accidents involving buses that includes measures to reduce visibility impairments for bus operators that contribute to accidents, including retrofits to buses in revenue service and specifications for future procurements that reduce visibility impairments; and transit worker assault mitigation, including the deployment of assault mitigation infrastructure and technology on buses, including barriers to restrict the unwanted entry of individuals and objects into bus operators’ workstations when a recipient’s risk analysis performed by the safety committee established in paragraph
(4)determines that such barriers or other measures would reduce assaults on and injuries to transit workers; and ; and by adding at the end the following: 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— 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 employer or State representatives. ; and in subsection (e)(4)(A)(v) by inserting , inspection, after has investigative .