[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1600 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1600

  To direct the Secretary of Transportation to take actions to ensure 
     that not fewer than 2 air traffic controllers are on duty and 
  physically situated within the air traffic control room or tower of 
 certain airports at all times during periods of airfield operations, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2011

   Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Transportation to take actions to ensure 
     that not fewer than 2 air traffic controllers are on duty and 
  physically situated within the air traffic control room or tower of 
 certain airports at all times during periods of airfield operations, 
                        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 ``Minimum Staffing of Air Traffic 
Controllers Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM STAFFING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation shall take such 
actions as may be necessary to ensure that, at a covered airport, not 
fewer than 2 air traffic controllers are on duty and physically 
situated within the airport's air traffic control room or tower at all 
times during periods of airfield operations.
    (b) Covered Airport.--In this section, the term ``covered airport'' 
means an airport in the United States at which scheduled commercial air 
carrier operations are provided regularly.
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