[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1971 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1971

To provide air carriers with access to information about applicants to 
  be pilots from the National Driver Register, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 17, 2017

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Perdue) 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 provide air carriers with access to information about applicants to 
  be pilots from the National Driver Register, 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 ``Pilot Records Improvement 
Enhancement Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS OF AIR CARRIERS TO INFORMATION ABOUT APPLICANTS TO BE 
              PILOTS FROM NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTER.

    Section 30305(b)(8) of title 49, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(8)(A) An individual who is seeking employment by an air 
        carrier as a pilot may request the chief driver licensing 
        official of a State to provide information about the individual 
        under subsection (a) of this section to the prospective 
        employer of the individual, the authorized agent of the 
        prospective employer, or the Secretary of Transportation.
            ``(B) An air carrier that is the prospective employer of an 
        individual described in subparagraph (A), or an authorized 
        agent of such an air carrier, may request and receive 
        information about that individual from the National Driver 
        Register through an organization approved by the Secretary for 
        purposes of requesting, receiving, and transmitting such 
        information directly to the prospective employer of such an 
        individual or the authorized agent of the prospective employer.
            ``(C) Information may not be obtained from the National 
        Driver Register under this paragraph if the information was 
        entered in the Register more than 5 years before the request 
        unless the information is about a revocation or suspension 
        still in effect on the date of the request.''.
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