[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3087 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3087

To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to establish time limitations 
on certain civil actions against aircraft manufacturers, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 1993

   Mr. Glickman (for himself, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Carr of Michigan, Mr. 
Michel, Mr. Mineta, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Clinger, Mr. Inhofe, 
 Mr. Lightfoot, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Allard, Mr. Archer, Mr. Armey, Mr. 
Bacchus of Florida, Mr. Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. 
    Baker of Louisiana, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. 
Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mrs. Bentley, Mr. Bereuter, 
 Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Blackwell, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Blute, Mr. 
Boehlert, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Borski, Mr. Boucher, Ms. Brown 
    of Florida, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burton of 
    Indiana, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Callahan, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Canady, Mr. 
    Cantwell, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Miss Collins of 
Michigan, Mr. Combest, Mr. Coppersmith, Mr. Cox, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Crane, 
 Mr. Crapo, Ms. Danner, Mr. Darden, Mr. Deal, Mr. DeLay, Mr. de Lugo, 
  Mr. Derrick, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Dooley, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Dornan, Mr. 
Duncan, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Everett, Mr. Ewing, Mr. 
   Fish, Mr. Foglietta, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
  Franks of Connecticut, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Gallo, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Pete 
 Geren of Texas, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Gilman, 
    Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Goss, Mr. Grams, Mr. Grandy, Mr. 
  Greenwood, Mr. Gunderson, Mr. Hall of Ohio, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. 
 Hancock, Ms. Harman, Mr. Hastert, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Hefley, Mr. Hefner, 
 Mr. Herger, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Holden, Mr. Horn, 
Mr. Houghton, Mr. Huffington, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Hutto, Mr. Hyde, Mr. 
   Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Istook, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Johnson of 
     Georgia, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Johnson of 
  Connecticut, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnston of Florida, Ms. 
Kaptur, Mr. Kasich, Mr. Kim, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Kolbe, 
Mr. Kyl, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Leach, Mr. Lehman, Mr. Lewis of California, 
  Mr. Lewis of Florida, Mr. Linder, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Machtley, Mr. 
 Manzullo, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Mazzoli, Mr. McCandless, Mr. 
McCollum, Mr. McCrery, Mr. McCurdy, Mr. McDade, Mr. McHugh, Mr. McKeon, 
 Mr. McMillan, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Mica, Mr. Miller of Florida, 
 Ms. Molinari, Mr. Mollohan, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. Murtha, 
Mr. Myers of Indiana, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Ms. Norton, Mr. Orton, 
Mr. Oxley, Mr. Packard, Mr. Parker, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Payne of Virginia, 
   Mr. Paxon, Mr. Penny, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Peterson of 
 Florida, Mr. Petri, Mr. Porter, Mr. Portman, Mr. Poshard, Mr. Quinn, 
 Mr. Ravenel, Mr. Regula, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rogers, Mr. 
 Rohrabacher, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Roth, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Royce, Mr. 
Santorum, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Schaefer, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Shays, Ms. Shepherd, 
Mr. Skeen, Mr. Slattery, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
Mr. Smith of Texas, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Spence, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Stearns, Mr. 
 Stenholm, Mr. Stump, Mr. Sundquist, Mr. Swett, Mr. Swift, Mr. Talent, 
Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. Taylor of Mississippi, Mr. Thomas of 
 Wyoming, Mr. Thornton, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Torricelli, 
  Mr. Towns, Mr. Traficant, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Upton, Mr. Valentine, Mr. 
Visclosky, Mr. Volkmer, Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Young 
of Alaska, Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. Zeliff, and Mr. Zimmer) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on 
           Public Works and Transportation and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to establish time limitations 
on certain civil actions against aircraft manufacturers, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``General Aviation Revitalization Act 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. TIME LIMITATION ON CIVIL ACTIONS AGAINST AIRCRAFT 
              MANUFACTURERS.

    Title XI of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. App. 1510-
1518) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 1119. TIME LIMITATION ON CIVIL ACTIONS AGAINST AIRCRAFT 
              MANUFACTURERS.

    ``(a) In General.--No civil action for damages for death or injury 
to persons or damage to property arising out of an accident involving a 
general aviation aircraft may be brought against the manufacturer of 
the aircraft or the manufacturer of any component, system, subassembly, 
or other part of the aircraft, if the accident occurred--
            ``(1) more than 15 years after--
                    ``(A) the date of delivery of the aircraft to its 
                first purchaser or lessee, if delivered directly from 
                the manufacturer; or
                    ``(B) the date of first delivery of the aircraft to 
                a person engaged in the business of selling or leasing 
                such aircraft; or
            ``(2) with respect to any component, system, subassembly, 
        or other part which replaced another product originally in, or 
        which was added to, the aircraft, and which is alleged to have 
        caused the claimant's damages, more than 15 years after the 
        date of the replacement or addition.
    ``(b) General Aviation Aircraft Defined.--For the purposes of this 
section, the term `general aviation aircraft' means any aircraft for 
which a type certificate or an airworthiness certificate has been 
issued by the Administrator, which, at the time such certificate was 
originally issued, had a maximum seating capacity of fewer than 20 
passengers, and which was not, at the time of the accident, engaged in 
scheduled passenger carrying operations as defined under regulations 
issued under this Act.
    ``(c) Relationship to Other Laws.--This section supersedes any 
Federal or State law to the extent that such law permits a civil action 
described in subsection (a) to be brought after the applicable deadline 
for such civil action established by subsection (a).''.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    The table of contents contained in the first section of the Federal 
Aviation Act of 1958 is amended by adding at the end of the matter 
relating to title XI of such Act the following:

``Sec. 1119. Time Limitation on Civil Actions Against Aircraft 
                            Manufacturers.
                              ``(a) In general.
                              ``(b) General aviation aircraft defined.
                              ``(c) Relationship to other laws.''.

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