Kevin Mullin will support a federal pilot program for real-time captioning and translation on transit.

Kevin Mullin · California · Democratic

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Occurrences

The Transit Captions Innovations Act would fund a pilot program to deploy real-time captioning and translation services for transit riders who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have limited English proficiency.

Mullin is backing a transit accessibility pilot for captioning and translation.

Votes and Legislation - Congressman Kevin Mullin
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Evidence

Congress.gov lists H.R.3648, the Transit Captions Innovations Act, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Mullin and introduced on 05/29/2025. The bill text directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for innovative real-time transcription and translation technology for transit riders who are deaf, hard of hearing, or limited English proficient.

Mullin formally introduced federal legislation matching the commitment to support a pilot/grant program for real-time captioning/transcription and translation on transit. Congress.gov still shows the bill at the Introduced stage, with latest action on 05/30/2025, so the support commitment is delivered even though enactment is not shown.

delivered same_term A for effort

H.R.3648 - Transit Captions Innovations Act, Congress.gov
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Rep. Mullin's official legislation page lists the Transit Captions Innovations Act among bills he led in the 119th Congress and says it would fund a pilot program to deploy real-time captioning and translation services for transit riders who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have limited English proficiency.

Mullin's official office describes him as leading the bill and identifies the promised federal pilot program for transit captioning and translation. This is direct evidence of support from his office.

delivered same_term A for effort

Votes and Legislation - Congressman Kevin Mullin
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Congress.gov shows the latest action for H.R.3648 as House referral to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on 05/30/2025 and lists the bill status as Introduced, not passed or enacted.

No newer official action in the lookback window was found; the bill remains introduced/referred. That does not undermine the narrower promise to support the pilot program, but it means the pilot itself is not shown as enacted or funded.

delivered same_term A for effort

H.R.3648 - Transit Captions Innovations Act, Congress.gov
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Assessments

delivered same_term A for effort

The promise was to support a federal pilot program, not necessarily to secure enactment or funding. During his current House term, Kevin Mullin sponsored H.R.3648, the Transit Captions Innovations Act, which directly proposed grants/pilot-style funding for real-time transcription/captioning and translation technology on transit for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and limited-English-proficient riders. Congress.gov evidence indicates the bill remained introduced/referred rather than passed, but the narrower support commitment was fulfilled by sponsoring and advancing matching federal legislation in the same term.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%