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Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110

§1131 Definitions

Title 6 › CHAPTER 4 — TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER III — PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › § 1131

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key words used in this part. Appropriate congressional committees names four specific committees: the Senate Committees on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committees on Homeland Security and on Transportation and Infrastructure. Department is the Department of Homeland Security. Disadvantaged business concerns are small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged people, as defined in section 124 of title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Frontline employee is a public transit worker who regularly deals with riders (for example drivers, dispatchers, maintenance staff, station attendants, customer service and security staff, transit police) and any other transit worker the Secretary says needs security training under section 1137. Public transportation agency is a publicly owned transit operator eligible for federal aid under chapter 53 of title 49. Secretary is the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Title 6, §1131

Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms apply:
(1)Appropriate congressional committees
The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
(2)Department
The term “Department” means the Department of Homeland Security.
(3)Disadvantaged businesses concerns
The term “disadvantaged business concerns” means small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as defined in section 124, title 13, Code of Federal Regulations.
(4)Frontline employee
The term “frontline employee” means an employee of a public transportation agency who is a transit vehicle driver or operator, dispatcher, maintenance and maintenance support employee, station attendant, customer service employee, security employee, or transit police, or any other employee who has direct contact with riders on a regular basis, and any other employee of a public transportation agency that the Secretary determines should receive security training under section 1137 of this title.
(5)Public transportation agency
The term “public transportation agency” means a publicly owned operator of public transportation eligible to receive Federal assistance under chapter 53 of title 49.
(6)Secretary
The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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of this subchapter as the “National Transit Systems Security Act of 2007”, see section 1401 of Pub. L. 110–53, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

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Citation

6 U.S.C. § 1131

Title 6, Domestic Security

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110