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Title 6 — Domestic SecurityRelease 119-73not60

§1131 Definitions

Title 6 › Chapter 4— TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › Subchapter III— PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › § 1131

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key terms used in this part of the law. "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" and "Secretary" both refer to the Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary. "Disadvantaged business concerns" are small businesses owned and run by socially and economically disadvantaged people, as defined in 13 CFR part 124. "Frontline employee" lists transit workers who deal with riders (drivers, dispatchers, maintenance, station staff, customer service, security, transit police) and any others the Secretary decides need security training. "Public transportation agency" means a publicly owned transit operator eligible for federal aid under chapter 53 of title 49.

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Title 6, §1131

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For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms apply:
(1)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)The term “Department” means the Department of Homeland Security.
(3)The term “disadvantaged business concerns” means small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as defined in section 11 So in original. Probably should be “part”. 124, title 13, Code of Federal Regulations.
(4)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)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)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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6 U.S.C. § 1131

Title 6 — Domestic Security

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60