Safe Freight Act of 2019

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

DYR YoungSponsor

141 cosponsors · 131 D, 10 R

DCD Cicilline SDD DelBene PKR King GMD Moore MPD Pocan KRD Rice DSD Soto BWD Watson Coleman SBD Bishop RGD Grijalva CLD Lamb TRD Ryan JSD Schakowsky ASD Schiff GND Napolitano CSR Smith ABD Brown MFD Fudge DTD Titus JGD Garamendi FPD Pallone BSD Schneider JHD Harder JRD Raskin SDD Davids DLD Loebsack DSD Scott SCD Carbajal ACD Craig AKD Kirkpatrick CBD Bustos DKD Kildee TMD Malinowski BLD Luján END Norton TOD O’Halleran CPD Pingree ASD Spanberger JBD Beatty BHD Higgins DLD Lipinski ELD Luria DPD Payne ESD Swalwell GCD Connolly JND Neguse TSD Suozzi BFD Foster ZLD Lofgren DBR Bacon CCD Crist HJD Johnson DNR Newhouse RKD Kind ALD Levin SHD Horsford RKD Khanna SLD Lynch BMD McCollum JVD Van Drew CPD Pappas AFD Finkenauer SWD Wild LGR Gohmert AMD McEachin LMD McBath RRD Ruiz RDD DeLauro RGD Gallego JLD Lewis DPD Price HRD Rouda JCD Courtney JKR Katko JWD Wexton MDD Doyle DHD Haaland KHD Hill MKD Kaptur JMD McGovern IOD Omar VED Escobar JJR Joyce SSR Stivers BFR Fitzpatrick JCD Correa LDD Doggett VGD Gonzalez RKD Krishnamoorthi LTD Trahan NVD Velázquez BBD Boyle SPD Peters TCD Cox MDD Dean AHD Hastings SLD Lee JYD Yarmuth CAD Axne NBD Barragán ALD Lawson EPD Perlmutter BPD Pascrell JKD Kennedy CPD Peterson BSD Scott JCD Chu BLD Lawrence MRD Rose PWD Welch AAD Adams TDD Deutch SGD Garcia BMD McAdams MCD Cartwright JCD Crow WKD Keating LRD Roybal-Allard BSD Sherman PSR Stauber XTD Torres Small PVD Visclosky JVD Vargas TCD Cárdenas KCD Clark JGD Gomez ALD Lowenthal DPD Phillips KPD Porter MTD Takano DTD Trone AKD Kim JSD Sarbanes JLD Langevin PTD Tonko ASD Smith ABD Brindisi HJD Jeffries RLD Larsen DWD Wasserman Schultz JMD McNerney

0 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill prohibits the operation of a freight train or light locomotive engine used in the movement of freight unless it has a crew of at least two individuals, one of whom is certified by the Federal Railroad Administration as a locomotive operator and the other as a train conductor.