High Threat Helicopter Flight Area Act
Latest action · Jun 25, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
Progress
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- IntroducedJun 6, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
High Threat Helicopter Flight Area Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to designate an area at high risk for an attack by one or more terrorists as a high threat helicopter flight area.
Directs the Secretary to provide screening of all passengers and property transported from a high threat flight helicopter area on a passenger helicopter equivalent to that provided for passengers and property carried aboard a domestic passenger aircraft. Requires the Secretary to develop a plan for acquiring and training personnel, including acquiring equipment, to provide such screening.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to take necessary action to ensure that: (1) no passenger helicopter flies in a high threat flight area, except on approach for landing, or departure after takeoff, in such area; (2) a passenger helicopter when flying in such area, to the maximum extent practicable, flies over water; and (3) a helicopter pilot when in flight over such area remains in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding its flight path, irrespective of its altitude. Exempts from such requirement helicopters carrying out military, police, medical, or other operations as the Secretary of Transportation deems appropriate.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
- Jun 7, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
- Jun 6, 2007Introduced in House
- Jun 6, 2007Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Air cargo
- Air routes
- Aviation safety
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Transportation
- Employee training
- Equipment and supplies
- Federal employees
- Government Operations and Politics
- Helicopters
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Recruiting of employees
- Security measures
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation planning
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 6, 2007Introduced in House
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