[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 54 (Monday, April 11, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3598. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3464 submitted by Mr. Thune (for himself and Mr. Nelson) 
to the bill H.R. 636, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
permanently extend increased expensing limitations, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 3109 and insert the following:

     SEC. 3109. REFUNDS FOR DELAYED BAGGAGE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation 
     shall issue final regulations to require a covered air 
     carrier to promptly provide a refund to a passenger, upon 
     request, in the amount of any applicable ancillary fees paid 
     by the passenger if the air carrier has charged the passenger 
     an ancillary fee for checked baggage and, except as provided 
     in subsection (b), the air carrier fails to deliver the 
     checked baggage to the passenger within 24 hours of the time 
     of arrival of the passenger at the passenger's destination.
       (b) Exception.--An air carrier is not required to provide a 
     refund under subsection (a) with respect to checked baggage 
     if the air carrier is prevented from delivering checked 
     baggage by the time specified in subsection (a) by 
     extraordinary circumstances that could not have been avoided 
     by the air carrier even if all reasonable measures had been 
     taken.
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