[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4295 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4295

To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
increase the rest periods of flight attendants to the same rest periods 
                               of pilots.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2015

  Mrs. Lawrence (for herself and Mrs. Watson Coleman) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
increase the rest periods of flight attendants to the same rest periods 
                               of pilots.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REST PERIODS FOR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall increase 
the rest periods described in section 121.467(b) of title 14, Code of 
Federal Regulations, to ensure that--
            (1) a flight attendant scheduled to a duty period of 14 
        hours or less as provided under paragraph (b)(1) of such 
        section must be given a scheduled rest period of at least 10 
        consecutive hours; and
            (2) the scheduled duty period may be reduced to a period of 
        not less than 9 consecutive hours, if the flight attendant is 
        provided a subsequent rest period of at least 11 consecutive 
        hours and the subsequent rest period is scheduled to begin not 
        later than 24 hours after the beginning of the reduced rest 
        period and must occur between the completion of the scheduled 
        duty period and the commencement of the subsequent duty period.
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