[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2945 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2945

 To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to travel 
  agencies, car rental companies, and other business concerns in the 
ancillary airline industry to provide compensation for losses incurred 
as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred 
                         on September 11, 2001.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2001

   Mr. Hastings of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Financial Services and Energy and 
Commerce, 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 authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to travel 
  agencies, car rental companies, and other business concerns in the 
ancillary airline industry to provide compensation for losses incurred 
as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred 
                         on September 11, 2001.

    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 ``Ancillary Airline Industry Relief 
Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO ANCILLARY AIRLINE INDUSTRY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation may make grants to 
a travel agency, car rental company, or other business concern in the 
ancillary airline industry, as defined by the Secretary, to provide 
compensation for losses incurred by the business concern as a result of 
the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 
11, 2001.
    (b) Applications.--In order to receive a grant under this section, 
a business concern shall submit to the Secretary an application that is 
in such form and contains such information as the Secretary may 
require.
    (c) Eligibility.--As part of an application submitted under 
subsection (b), the Secretary shall require a business concern to 
demonstrate that since September 11, 2001, the revenues of the business 
concern have declined by 50 percent or more as a direct result of the 
terrorist attacks.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2002. Such sums shall remain available 
until expended.
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