Transit Captions Innovations Act

The Transit Captions Innovations Act would direct the Secretary of Transportation to award grants for deploying innovative real-time transcription and translation technology to improve the transit rider experience for Deaf, hard of hearing, and limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. It expands the list of eligible uses under existing federal transit language to include these real-time accessibility technologies and creates a dedicated, multi-year funding line to support such projects from fiscal year 2027 through 2031. The bill is titled to emphasize captioning and language-access innovations in public transit and would be implemented through grant programs administered by the Department of Transportation (likely the Federal Transit Administration).