[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9637 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9637

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
take certain actions to prohibit air carriers from reducing the size of 
          passenger seats on aircraft, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2022

  Ms. Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
take certain actions to prohibit air carriers from reducing the size of 
          passenger seats on aircraft, 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 ``Stop Airplane Seat Shrinking Act''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM DIMENSIONS OF PASSENGER SEATS.

    The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall take 
such actions as are necessary to prohibit air carriers (as such term is 
defined in section 40102(a) of title 49, United States Code) from 
reducing the size of a passenger seat on an aircraft operated by such 
air carrier until the Administrator issues a final rule establishing 
minimum dimensions for passenger seats, as required under section 577 
of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-254).
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