[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3430 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3430

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of 
                       certain seasonal airports.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 12, 2018

Mr. Daines (for himself and Mr. Tester) 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 amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of 
                       certain seasonal airports.

    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 ``Seasonal Airport Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. SEASONAL AIRPORTS.

    Section 47114(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) Seasonal airports.--Notwithstanding any other 
                provision of this subsection, the Secretary shall 
                consider an airport to be a nonhub primary for the 
                purposes of section 47119 and shall apportion to an 
                airport sponsor in a fiscal year an amount equal to the 
                minimum apportionment available under subparagraph (B) 
                if the Secretary finds that the airport is a commercial 
                service airport (as defined in section 47102) receiving 
                scheduled air carrier service for fewer than six months 
                annually with at least 8,000 passenger boardings in the 
                calendar year used to calculate the apportionment.''.
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