WASHINGTON — Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced a bill Tuesday to establish a federal task force to address violence on public transit and boost reporting of those incidents to Congress, weeks after a young woman was horrifically stabbed to death on a Charlotte, NC, light rail train.

The Transit Crime Reporting Act would establish a 12-member task force chaired by the head of the Federal Transit Administration to compile a report within two years providing recommendations on how to halt violent acts on public transportation.

The four-page bill would also require Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to inform the committees overseeing public transportation issues in Congress about “all crime occurring on federally funded transit systems that transit agencies are r

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