[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4520 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4520

      To require passenger aircraft to transmit GPS location data.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2014

 Mr. Stockman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require passenger aircraft to transmit GPS location data.

    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 ``Aircraft Positioning Modernization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that when an aircraft crashes in an area far from 
radar, the aircraft and its flight recorder can be difficult to find, 
necessitating expensive search and rescue operations.

SEC. 3. GENERAL AUTHORIZATION.

    Section 91.609(c) of the Code of Federal Regulations shall be 
amended to require that the Global Positioning System coordinate 
information shall be periodically transmitted to a receiving facility 
at a time frequency of 30 minutes.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The provisions of this Act shall take effect three years following 
enactment.
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