[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1733 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1733

   To require the Secretary of Transportation to revise regulations 
   relating to oversold flights to prohibit the forcible removal of 
         passengers from such flights, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 3, 2017

Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Carper, and Mr. Blumenthal) 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 the Secretary of Transportation to revise regulations 
   relating to oversold flights to prohibit the forcible removal of 
         passengers from such flights, 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 ``Customers Not Cargo Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FORCIBLE REMOVAL OF PASSENGERS FROM OVERSOLD 
              FLIGHTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall revise the 
regulations under part 250 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations--
            (1) to prohibit an air carrier from forcibly removing a 
        passenger from an aircraft after boarding because the air 
        carrier oversold the flight or to provide a passenger seat to 
        an employee of the air carrier;
            (2) to establish standards for resolving oversales once an 
        aircraft has been boarded through the provision of escalating 
        incentives to passengers to encourage voluntary rebooking; and
            (3) to require an air carrier, to the extent practicable, 
        to resolve issues related to overselling a flight before 
        boarding the flight.
    (b) Exceptions.--In revising the regulations as required by 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall consider providing for exceptions 
to those regulations for--
            (1) a medical emergency; or
            (2) a circumstance that poses a threat to the safety of the 
        flight.
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