Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
The Safe Transit for All Act of 2026 requires recipients of federal transit assistance serving urbanized areas of 200,000+ people to create programs to collect data on passenger-directed street harassment.
Agencies must provide accessible digital and in-person reporting, gather incident details and demographics, do multilingual outreach, publish de-identified data, and establish response protocols.
The bill defines "street harassment" and requires the National Transit Database to include collected harassment data.
Modest, targeted administrative mandate with limited fiscal exposure increases chances, but privacy concerns, reporting burdens, and procedural hurdles temper likelihood.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates new legal obligations on certain transit grant recipients to collect and publish structured data about passenger-targeted street harassment and to include that data in the National Transit Database. It is specific about the content of the data to be collected and how it should be made publicly available (excluding PII), and it integrates the requirement into existing statutory locations (public transportation agency safety plans and the NTD).
Scope: safety data collection versus federal micromanagement
Scope: safety data collection versus federal micromanagement
Likely supportive because the bill creates data-driven tools to document harassment and advance transit equity and safety.
Sees mandated multilingual outreach and demographic collection as important for protecting marginalized riders.
Generally favorable but pragmatic: supports safety and data collection while wanting clarity on costs, privacy protections, and operational burden.
Would look for measurable outcomes and limited federal overreach.
Skeptical: views the bill as federal micromanagement that adds reporting burdens and potential privacy concerns.
Worries it prioritizes data collection over concrete security measures.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Modest, targeted administrative mandate with limited fiscal exposure increases chances, but privacy concerns, reporting burdens, and procedural hurdles temper likelihood.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Scope: safety data collection versus federal micromanagement
Modest, targeted administrative mandate with limited fiscal exposure increases chances, but privacy concerns, reporting burdens, and proced…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates new legal obligations on certain transit grant recipients to collect and publish structured data about passenger-targeted street harassment and to include tha…
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