[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4495 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 4495


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 5 (legislative day, September 12), 1994

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit smoking on all 
 scheduled airline flight segments in air transportation or intrastate 
                          air transportation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Airliner Cabin Air Quality Act of 
1994''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS AGAINST SMOKING ON SCHEDULED FLIGHTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 41706 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 41706. Prohibitions against smoking on scheduled flights
    ``(a) Smoking Prohibition in Intrastate and Interstate Air 
Transportation.--An individual may not smoke in an aircraft on a 
scheduled airline flight segment in interstate air transportation or 
intrastate air transportation.
    ``(b) Smoking Prohibition in Foreign Air Transportation.--The 
Secretary of Transportation shall require all air carriers and foreign 
air carriers to prohibit, on and after the 120th day following the date 
of the enactment of the Airliner Cabin Air Quality Act of 1994, smoking 
in any aircraft on a scheduled airline flight segment within the United 
States or between a place in the United States and a place outside the 
United States.
    ``(c) Limitation on Applicability.--The smoking prohibitions 
contained in subsections (a) and (b) shall apply only to the passenger 
cabin and lavatory of an aircraft operated by a foreign air carrier.
    ``(d) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe regulations 
necessary to carry out this section.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the 60th day following the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 4, 1994.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.