[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1896 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1896

To require that travel awards that accrue by reason of official travel 
      of a Member, officer, or employee of the Senate or House of 
Representatives be used only for official travel or travel between the 
   Member's State and the District of Columbia, or transferred to a 
                   qualified non-profit organization.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 1997

Mr. Thornberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on House Oversight, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that travel awards that accrue by reason of official travel 
      of a Member, officer, or employee of the Senate or House of 
Representatives be used only for official travel or travel between the 
   Member's State and the District of Columbia, or transferred to a 
                   qualified non-profit organization.

    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 ``Frequent Flyer Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FREQUENT FLYER MILES.

    Section 507 of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (Public 
Law 104-1; 2 U.S.C. 1436) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(1)'' before 
                ``Notwithstanding'';
                    (B) by striking the period and inserting ``other 
                than travel by the Member for whose office the travel 
                was performed, or a family member of such Member, 
                between the Washington, D.C. area and the Member's 
                state.''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
    ``(2) The Member for whose office the travel was performed may 
transfer any travel award to an organization described in section 
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is exempt from tax 
under section 501(a) of such Act.''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or House of Representatives'' after 
        ``Senate'' each place it appears.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that commercial airlines that offer 
travel awards should provide that such travel awards are transferable 
in a manner consistent with this Act.
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