Healthy Air Travel Act
Summary
Healthy Air Travel Act This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to establish an interagency task force to develop and implement a strategy to identify and advance research on communicable diseases in air travel. The task force must consult with representatives from the aviation industry, health experts, and labor stakeholders in developing the strategy. Under the bill, the term communicable disease refers to certain diseases that have the potential to cause a future epidemic or pandemic of infectious disease that would constitute a public health emergency of international concern as declared, after the date of the bill's enactment, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 25, 2023
Last action May 25, 2023
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Total actions
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Committee
1
May 25, 2023
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
lower
May 25, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 14 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Colin Z. Allred
DDemocratic
Co
Dina Titus
DDemocratic
Co
Don Bacon
RRepublican
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Jill N. Tokuda
DDemocratic
Co
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
RRepublican
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