Aviation Industry Stabilization Act of 2003
Latest action · Apr 10, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 19, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Grants the Secretary authority to extend through calendar year 2007 the termination date of any insurance policy issued to an air carrier.
Makes permanent the Secretary's authority to declare an air carrier a victim of terrorism not liable for third party claims arising out of acts of terrorism.
Extends the period for an air carrier to apply for a loan guarantee or line of credit to pay for its aviation fuel costs or increases in aviation fuel costs under the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act.
Requires the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, after all cockpit doors are strengthened, to consider and report to Congress on whether it is necessary to require Federal air marshals to be seated in the first class cabin of an aircraft with strengthened cockpit doors.
Requires the Under Secretary to: (1) undertake action necessary to improve the screening of mail so that it can be carried on passenger flights; and (2) reimburse air carriers for certain screening and related activities as well as the cost of fortifying cockpit doors, and for any financial losses attributed to the loss of air traffic resulting from the use of force against Iraq in calendar year 2003.
Requires that an airlift services contract entered into by the Secretary of Defense and an air carrier provide for the air carrier to be compensated for the positioning, repositioning, and other ferry portions of missions performed under the contract.
Requires the Secretary of Energy, if the use of force against Iraq is authorized in calendar year 2003, to drawdown and distribute petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the extent necessary to remedy a dislocation in the jet fuel market or an extraordinary increase in the price of jet fuel.
Establishes an air cargo security working group composed of various groups to develop recommendations on the enhancement of the current known shipper program.
Directs the Comptroller General to analyze factors contributing to the financial difficulties of air carriers to determine possible approaches to alleviate such difficulties.
Cosponsors 18
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 19, 2003 to Apr 29, 2003, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Mar 19, 2003 |
| D-IL | William O. Lipinski | Original | Mar 19, 2003 |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-IA | Leonard L. Boswell | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-TX | Nick Lampson | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Mar 26, 2003 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Mar 27, 2003 | |
| R-MN | Jim Ramstad | Mar 27, 2003 | |
| D-KY | Ken Lucas | Apr 1, 2003 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Apr 3, 2003 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Mar 20, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
- Mar 19, 2003Introduced in House
- Mar 19, 2003Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Mar 19, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E512)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Agriculture and Food
- Air cargo
- Air traffic
- Aircraft construction
- Airline employees
- Airline passenger traffic
- Airlines
- Airports
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Aviation fuels
- Aviation insurance
- Aviation safety
- Commerce
- Commercial aircraft
- Compensation (Law)
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction costs
- Corporate finance
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Defense contracts
- Dogs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Energy
- Energy prices
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food service
- Government contractors
- Government insurance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Identification devices
- Infrastructure
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military airlift
- Military operations
- Petroleum reserves
- Postal service
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reinsurance
- Security measures
- Strategic materials
- Subsidies
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation workers
- War
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