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Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7] · D–CO
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Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-09-01 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Public Transit Mental Health Awareness Act would require recipients of specified federal transit assistance, including those receiving funds indirectly, to display suicide-prevention hotline information where passengers can see it. Recipients could use all their transit vehicles or all their transit facilities. The requirement would begin one year after enactment.
This Act may be cited as the Public Transit Mental Health Awareness Act.
A recipient (including a subrecipient) of assistance under this chapter shall display on public transportation owned or operated by the recipient, in a location visible to public transportation passengers, information regarding the suicide prevention hotline
A recipient (or subrecipient) may satisfy the requirement under paragraph (1) by displaying the information referred to in such paragraph— (A) on all rolling stock vehicles of such recipient; or (B) in all transit facilities of such recipient.
The requirement under paragraph (1) shall take effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection.
Section 2 would add a requirement to federal transportation law covering recipients and subrecipients of assistance under the chapter being amended. Displays on transportation they own or operate would have to be visible to passengers and describe the specified suicide-prevention hotline, including that it is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day.
Section 5323 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
A recipient (including a subrecipient) of assistance under this chapter shall display on public transportation owned or operated by the recipient, in a location visible to public transportation passengers, information regarding the suicide prevention hotline maintained pursuant to section 520E–3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–36c), including that such hotline is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day.
A recipient could meet the display requirement by posting the information on all its transit vehicles—the bill's “rolling stock”—or in all its transit facilities. The bill would allow either option.
A recipient (or subrecipient) may satisfy the requirement under paragraph (1) by displaying the information referred to in such paragraph— (A) on all rolling stock vehicles of such recipient; or (B) in all transit facilities of such recipient.
A recipient would remain in compliance when a display is temporarily damaged, removed, vandalized, or otherwise unavailable, provided it makes a reasonable effort to replace or restore the display.
If any public display of information required under paragraph (1) is temporarily damaged, removed, vandalized, or otherwise unavailable, the recipient (or subrecipient) responsible shall not be considered to be out of compliance with this subsection provided that the recipient makes a reasonable effort to replace or restore such display.
Required hotline displays could not interfere with advertising space that generates revenue.
The display of information required under this subsection shall not interfere with revenue-generating advertising space.
The display requirement would take effect one year after the subsection's enactment, rather than on a fixed calendar date.
The requirement under paragraph (1) shall take effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 7, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 1, 2026.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-07T08:06:03Z. 2026-09-01: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 2026-09-01: Introduced in House
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2026-09-01. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
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No unrelated provision or policy change attached to appropriations was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
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No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version; accompanying earmark materials were not supplied.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
None identified in the reviewed text
No materially narrow preferential treatment was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. The compliance and display-placement rules apply generally to covered recipients. This conclusion does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
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