HR 5783
Cleared committee
Adds to state highway-rail grade crossing safety plans a description of how each state will work with railroads, mental health agencies, and law enforcement to reduce pedestrian deaths, including suicides, along railroad rights of way, and sets a five-year reporting schedule for the required reports.
Official title: State Actions For Employing Transportation Risk Assessments and Crossing Knowledge Strategies Act
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House
Introduced
17-OCT-2025
Referred
17-OCT-2025
Approved by committee
18-DEC-2025
- Requires state grade crossing safety plans to explain how the state will work with railroads and with mental health and law enforcement agencies to reduce pedestrian fatalities, including suicides, along railroad rights of way.
- Adds "and every 5 years thereafter" to a reporting requirement in subsection (b) of the same federal railroad statute, which covers reports on grade crossing safety.
- Sets out the short title as the SAFE TRACKS Act.
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CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Check on congress.gov- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
- Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
Transportation and Public Works
■ 11 D■ 3 R
11 Democrats
3 Republicans