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[H.R. 2626 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2626

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven


                                 An Act


 
To make clarifications to the Pilot Records Improvement Act of 1996, 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. RECORDS OF EMPLOYMENT OF PILOT APPLICANTS.

    Section 44936(f) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``Before hiring an 
    individual'' and inserting ``Subject to paragraph (14), before 
    allowing an individual to begin service'';
        (2) in paragraph (1)(B) by inserting ``as a pilot of a civil or 
    public aircraft'' before ``at any time'';
        (3) in paragraph (4)--
            (A) by inserting ``and air carriers'' after 
        ``Administrator''; and
            (B) by striking ``paragraph (1)(A)'' and inserting 
        ``paragraphs (1)(A) and (1)(B)'';
        (4) in paragraph (5) by striking ``this paragraph'' and 
    inserting ``this subsection'';
        (5) in paragraph (10)--
            (A) by inserting ``who is or has been'' before 
        ``employed''; and
            (B) by inserting ``, but not later than 30 days after the 
        date'' after ``reasonable time''; and
        (6) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(14) Special rules with respect to certain pilots.--
            ``(A) Pilots of certain small aircraft.--Notwithstanding 
        paragraph (1), an air carrier, before receiving information 
        requested about an individual under paragraph (1), may allow 
        the individual to begin service for a period not to exceed 90 
        days as a pilot of an aircraft with a maximum payload capacity 
        (as defined in section 119.3 of title 14, Code of Federal 
        Regulations) of 7,500 pounds or less, or a helicopter, on a 
        flight that is not a scheduled operation (as defined in such 
        section). Before the end of the 90-day period, the air carrier 
        shall obtain and evaluate such information. The contract 
        between the carrier and the individual shall contain a term 
        that provides that the continuation of the individual's 
        employment, after the last day of the 90-day period, depends on 
        a satisfactory evaluation.
            ``(B) Good faith exception.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), 
        an air carrier, without obtaining information about an 
        individual under paragraph (1)(B) from an air carrier or other 
        person that no longer exists, may allow the individual to begin 
        service as a pilot if the air carrier required to request the 
        information has made a documented good faith attempt to obtain 
        such information.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.