[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2349 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2349

   To require the Secretary of Transportation to modify a regulation 
 regarding the involuntary deplaning or denial of boarding a flight of 
any passenger on an oversold flight to accommodate a member of the air 
                    carrier's flight crew or staff.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Transportation to modify a regulation 
 regarding the involuntary deplaning or denial of boarding a flight of 
any passenger on an oversold flight to accommodate a member of the air 
                    carrier's flight crew or staff.

    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 ``Hands off Passengers Act''.

SEC. 2. NO BUMPING FOR FLIGHT CREW.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall modify part 250 of title 14, 
Code of Federal Regulations, to prohibit the involuntary deplaning or 
denial of boarding a flight of any passenger holding a confirmed 
reserved seat on an oversold flight to accommodate a member of the air 
carrier's flight crew or staff.
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