[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3849 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3849

    To require commercial airlines to make flight delay information 
            available to the public, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 6, 2006

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require commercial airlines to make flight delay information 
            available to the public, 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 ``Air Travel Delay Awareness Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF FLIGHT DELAY INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 417 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 41724. Availability of flight delay information
    ``(a) Requirement To Make Information Available.--The Secretary of 
Transportation shall require each air carrier, foreign air carrier, or 
intrastate air carrier that provides air transportation or intrastate 
air transportation to make available to the public information 
regarding the delay of a scheduled passenger flight not later than 10 
minutes after such information is available.
    ``(b) Manner of Availability.--An air carrier, foreign air carrier, 
or intrastate air carrier shall make the information referred to in 
subsection (a) available through--
            ``(1) any Internet website of such air carrier, foreign air 
        carrier, or intrastate air carrier;
            ``(2) any automated recording related to flight departure 
        or arrival times maintained by such air carrier, foreign air 
        carrier, or intrastate air carrier;
            ``(3) announcements at appropriate airports; and
            ``(4) flight information screens at appropriate 
        airports.''.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall promulgate 
regulations to implement section 41724 of title 49, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a).
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 417 of title 
49, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to 
section 41723 the following:

``41724. Availability of flight delay information.''.
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