S 1933 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

DCA Act

Introduced Jun 13, 2023 Originated Senate Sponsor Raphael G. Warnock D-GA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jun 13, 2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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.

  1. IntroducedJun 13, 2023
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Direct Capital Access Act or the DCA Act

This bill increases the number of daily round-trip flights allowed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

Specifically, this bill adds 56 new slots at DCA to allow for 28 additional daily round-trip flights. (Airlines flying to and from DCA are subject to slot and perimeter rules set by federal law and regulation. The slot rules determine the total number of flight slots that can be handled in a given time period. In addition, a statutory perimeter rule limits nonstop flights to a 1,250-mile radius unless they are granted an exemption in law.)

Current law limits DCA to a maximum of 67 hourly slots for flights both within- and beyond-perimeter; a round-trip flight serving DCA requires two slots (or a slot pair). Of those slots, 40 daily slots are exempt from the perimeter rule.

Under the bill's slot increase, operations at DCA may not increase by more than eight flights per hour.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 13, 2023 to Jun 21, 2023, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-WYCynthia M. LummisOriginalJun 13, 2023
D-GAJon OssoffJun 21, 2023
R-UTMike LeeJun 21, 2023
R-UTMitt RomneyJun 21, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jun 13, 2023Introduced in Senate
  2. Jun 13, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 3185DCA Act of 2023Related billMay 11, 2023

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.

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  1. Jun 13, 2023Introduced in Senate

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