3.0.0 4293 2023-01-11T13:45:36Z 2023-01-11T13:45:36Z Senate S 2020-07-23 116 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-07-23T18:20:19Z MIDDLE Act of 2020 116 7741 HR 2020-07-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. Related bill CRS 2020-07-23 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2020-07-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N Transportation and Public Works Aviation and airports Cardiovascular and respiratory health Emergency medical services and trauma care Health promotion and preventive care Health technology, devices, supplies Infectious and parasitic diseases Transportation employees Transportation safety and security Transportation and Public Works 00 2020-07-23 Introduced in Senate 2020-08-19T18:27:01Z Maintaining Important Distance During Lengthy Epidemics Act of 2020 or the MIDDLE Act of 2020

This bill prohibits air carriers, during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency, from (1) permitting adjacent seats to another occupied seat to be filled on a passenger aircraft, (2) passing along the cost of any seat switch undertaken by such air carriers in order to comply with the prohibitions, and (3) permitting a passenger or crewmember to board a passenger aircraft if the passenger or crewmember is not wearing a mask.

The Federal Aviation Administration must issue guidance for appropriate exceptions to the prohibitions based on federal public health guidance.

]]> MIDDLE Act of 2020 Display Title MIDDLE Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced MIDDLE Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Maintaining Important Distance During Lengthy Epidemics Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to promote airline passenger safety during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4293is/xml/BILLS-116s4293is.xml 2020-07-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.