[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4193 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4193

 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2023

 Mrs. Wagner (for herself and Ms. Spanberger) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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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. FAMILY SEATING.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall issue a 
notice of proposed rulemaking to establish a policy directing air 
carriers that assign seats, or allow individuals to select seats in 
advance of the date of departure of a flight, to sit each young child 
adjacent to an accompanying adult, to the greatest extent practicable, 
if adjacent seat assignments are available at any time after the ticket 
is issued for each young child and before the first passenger boards 
the flight.
    (b) Prohibition on Fees.--The notice of proposed rulemaking 
described in subsection (a) shall include a provision that prohibits an 
air carrier from charging a fee, or imposing an additional cost beyond 
the ticket price of the additional seat, to seat each young child 
adjacent to an accompanying adult within the same class of service.
    (c) Rule of Construction.--Notwithstanding the requirement in 
subsection (a), nothing in this section may be construed to allow the 
Secretary to impose a change in the overall seating or boarding policy 
of an air carrier that has an open or flexible seating policy in place 
that generally allows adjacent family seating as described under this 
section.
    (d) Young Child.--In this section, the term ``young child'' means 
an individual who has not attained 14 years of age.
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