[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4335 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4335

 To require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a policy with 
    respect to family seating on air transportation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2020

     Ms. Klobuchar (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Schumer, and Ms. 
  Klobuchar)) 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 establish a policy with 
    respect to family seating on air transportation, 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 ``Fly Together Act''.

SEC. 2. POLICY ON FAMILIES FLYING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall establish 
a policy directing all air carriers providing scheduled passenger 
interstate or intrastate air transportation to establish policies that 
enable a child, who is age 13 or under on the date an applicable flight 
is scheduled to occur, to be seated in a seat adjacent to the seat of 
an accompanying family member over the age of 13, to the maximum extent 
practicable and at no additional cost, except when assignment to an 
adjacent seat would--
            (1) require an upgrade to--
                    (A) another cabin class;
                    (B) a seat with extra legroom; or
                    (C) seat pitch for which additional payment is 
                normally required; or
            (2) violate safety guidelines.
    (b) Statutory Construction.--Notwithstanding the requirement in 
subsection (a), nothing in this section may be construed to allow the 
Secretary to impose a significant change in the overall seating or 
boarding policy of an air carrier providing scheduled passenger 
interstate or intrastate air transportation that has an open or 
flexible seating policy in place that generally allows adjacent family 
seating as described in subsection (a).
    (c) Definition of Air Carrier.--In this section, the term ``air 
carrier'' has the meaning given the term in section 40102(a) of title 
49, United States Code.
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