[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1283 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1283

  To require persons that operate Internet websites that sell airline 
  tickets to disclose to the purchaser of each ticket the air carrier 
   that operates each segment of the flight, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 17, 2009

  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 persons that operate Internet websites that sell airline 
  tickets to disclose to the purchaser of each ticket the air carrier 
   that operates each segment of the flight, 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 ``Regional Carrier Discloser Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF AIR CARRIERS OPERATING FLIGHTS FOR WHICH TICKETS 
              ARE SOLD ON CERTAIN INTERNET WEBSITES.

    (a) In General.--A person that operates an Internet website that 
sells tickets for flights by an air carrier may not sell a ticket for a 
flight on that website unless that person discloses in the first 
listing of the flight on the website that may be seen by the 
purchaser--
            (1) the name of the air carrier operating the flight; and
            (2) in the case of a flight with multiple segments, the 
        name of the air carrier operating each segment of the flight.
    (b) Air Carrier Defined.--In this section, the term ``air carrier'' 
has the meaning given that term in section 40102(a)(2) of title 49, 
United States Code.
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