[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6108-S6109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 986. Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Blumenthal) 
submitted an amendment intended to

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be proposed to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 
3055, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title I of division D, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. FAIR TREATMENT UNDER THE ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE 
                   PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of Transportation shall reinstitute Essential 
     Air Service for fiscal year 2020 at any airport that received 
     a subsidy under the Essential Air Service program in fiscal 
     year 2019 and that has supplied data to the Secretary that 
     demonstrate an average enplanements per day and a subsidy 
     amount per passenger for fiscal year 2019 that meet the 
     requirements of the Essential Air Service program (taking 
     into account subsection (d) of section 426 of the FAA 
     Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, as added by section 458 
     of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (49. U.S.C. 41731 
     note)).
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