{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-8289","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 8289","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II"},{"type":"Short Titles as Introduced","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II"}],"outcome":"became_law","law_number":"Public Law 118-60","introduced":"2024-05-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-05-08","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h187","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II","result":"Passed","yea":385,"nay":24,"present":1,"not_voting":20,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll187.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2024-05-09","vote":null,"how":"unanimous_consent","words":"Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3665)"}},"president":{"status":"signed","date":"2024-05-10"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Became Public Law No: 118-60.","date":"2024-05-10"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-05-10","stage":"Public Law","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II"},{"k":"p","t":"This act temporarily extends specific Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs and activities through May 17, 2024."},{"k":"p","t":"TITLE I--FEDERAL AVIATION PROGRAMS"},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 101) This section extends through May 17, 2024, the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). This program provides grants for planning, development, and noise compatibility projects at or associated with certain public-use airports."},{"k":"p","t":"This section also extends authorization through May 17, 2024, for the FAA AIP supplementary discretionary funds for grants for airport or terminal development projects."},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 102) This section extends through May 17, 2024, certain expiring Department of Transportation (DOT) and FAA authorities and programs."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority of DOT to provide insurance and reinsurance for the federal government for risks from operating an aircraft and providing related goods or services."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the FAA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site Program, which provides verification of the safety of public and civil UAS, operations, and related navigation procedures before their integration into the national airspace system."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority of DOT to provide exemptions from some requirements for UAS by using a risk-based approach to determine if certain UAS may operate safely in the national airspace system."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the FAA's airport safety and airspace hazard mitigation and enforcement program to test and evaluate technologies or systems that detect and mitigate potential aviation safety risks posed by UAS."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends authorization through May 17, 2024, for AIP grants for airports located in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, AIP grant authorization for compatible land use planning and projects by state and local governments. Airport-compatible land uses are those that can coexist with a nearby airport without constraining the safe and efficient operation of the airport, or exposing people living or working nearby to significant environmental impacts."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, authority for DOT to enter into a reimbursable agreement with the Department of Interior for the purpose of funding airport development at Midway Island Airport."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the termination date for a final order establishing mileage and adjustment eligibility under the Essential Air Service (EAS) Program using the most commonly used route between the place and the nearest medium hub airport or large hub airport. (The EAS program was established to ensure that small communities that were served by certificated air carriers before the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 would continue to receive scheduled passenger service.)"},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for the Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee, which advises DOT in carrying out activities relating to airline customer service improvements."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the pilot program that allows AIP funds to be used for activities related to the redevelopment of airport properties."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for the FAA remote tower pilot program. A remote tower is a remotely operated air navigation facility, including all necessary system components, that provides the functions and capabilities of an air traffic control tower whereby air traffic services are provided to operators at an airport from a location that may not be on or near the airport."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for DOT to provide AIP grants for airport access roads in certain remote locations and for storage facilities for certain snow removal and safety equipment."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for the FAA's UAS remote detection and identification pilot program. Under the program, the FAA uses available remote detection or identification technologies for safety oversight, including enforcement actions against operators of UAS that are not in compliance with federal aviation laws and regulations."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the requirement that the Aviation Consumer Advocate at DOT submit an annual report to Congress summarizing aviation consumer complaints and recommendations."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for the FAA Air Carrier Access Act Advisory Committee to address the needs of passengers with disabilities."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for an FAA pilot program to provide air traffic control services on a preferential basis to aircraft equipped with certain Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) avionics."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, competitive access disclosure requirements for AIP grant applications for large and medium hub airports. Specifically, an airport must provide assurances to DOT that it will report if it has been unable to accommodate one or more requests by an air carrier for access to gates or other facilities at that airport in order to provide service or expanded service."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, authorization for the AIP non-movement area surveillance surface display systems pilot grant program. These systems use on-airport sensors to track vehicles or aircraft that are equipped with transponders on portions of the airfield surface that are not under the control of air traffic control."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends to May 18, 2024, a learning period (i.e., moratorium) that applies to certain DOT commercial spaceflight safety regulations governing the design or operation of a launch vehicle to protect the health and safety of crew, government astronauts, and space flight participants."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, the moratorium on discontinuing the FAA Contract Weather Observer Program at any airport."},{"k":"p","t":"This section extends through May 17, 2024, authorization for the FAA weather reporting programs."},{"k":"p","t":"TITLE II--AIRPORT REVENUE PROVISIONS"},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 201) This section extends through May 17, 2024, the FAA's authority for expenditures from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF). The AATF is the primary funding source for all major FAA accounts that fund federal aviation programs, with the remainder coming from general fund appropriations."},{"k":"p","t":"(Sec. 202) This section extends through May 17, 2024, the authority for the FAA to collect various taxes and fees to fund the AATF, including taxes on aviation fuel and airline tickets."}],"words":1082},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Extends the airport improvement program, a set of related aviation authorities, and the Airport and Airway Trust Fund's expenditure authority and funding taxes by one week, to May 17 or May 18, 2024.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-HF16D5C07A60A48F2B3B9A6E68829EFD4:~:text=101.%20Extension%20of%20airport%20improvement%20program"},{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-H4B2DB4EFD39846A3A1C7F47B3481F6DD:~:text=102.%20Extension%20of%20expiring%20authorities"},{"label":"Sec. 201","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-HDB8FA89B37DE4CD8A6ADCB7862B828A0:~:text=201.%20Expenditure%20authority%20from%20Airport%20and%20Airway"},{"label":"Sec. 202","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-H7B93078661D54F7993726D706BA7951D:~:text=202.%20Extension%20of%20taxes%20funding%20Airport%20and"}]},"core_areas":["Airport improvement program authorization and funding","Expiring Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration authorities","Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority","Aviation excise taxes funding the Airport and Airway Trust Fund"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Applies a figure of \"$2,105,191,256 for the period beginning October 1, 2023, and ending on May 17, 2024\" in place of the prior figure and May 10, 2024 end date in the airport improvement program authorization of appropriations in section 48103(a)(7) of title 49.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-HF16D5C07A60A48F2B3B9A6E68829EFD4:~:text=101.%20Extension%20of%20airport%20improvement%20program"}},{"text":"Applies a figure of \"$334,563,279\" for the period from October 1, 2023, to May 17, 2024, in place of \"$340,321,762\" and the May 10, 2024 end date, for supplemental discretionary funds under section 47115(j)(4)(A) of title 49.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 101","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-HF16D5C07A60A48F2B3B9A6E68829EFD4:~:text=101.%20Extension%20of%20airport%20improvement%20program"}},{"text":"Substitutes May 17, 2024 for May 10, 2024 in a list of sixteen provisions of title 49 and other aviation laws, and substitutes May 18, 2024 for May 11, 2024 in five further provisions of title 49, title 51 and other laws.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-H4B2DB4EFD39846A3A1C7F47B3481F6DD:~:text=102.%20Extension%20of%20expiring%20authorities"}},{"text":"Applies a figure of \"$24,508,197\" for the period from October 1, 2023, to May 17, 2024, in place of \"$23,762,295\" and the May 10, 2024 end date, in section 48105 of title 49.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-H4B2DB4EFD39846A3A1C7F47B3481F6DD:~:text=102.%20Extension%20of%20expiring%20authorities"}},{"text":"Substitutes May 18, 2024 for May 11, 2024 in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority in the Internal Revenue Code, and adds the Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II to the list of acts in section 9502(d)(1)(A).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 201","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-HDB8FA89B37DE4CD8A6ADCB7862B828A0:~:text=201.%20Expenditure%20authority%20from%20Airport%20and%20Airway"}},{"text":"Substitutes May 17, 2024 for May 10, 2024 in five Internal Revenue Code sections on aviation-related taxes, and May 18, 2024 for May 11, 2024 in section 4083(b).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 202","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr#toc-H7B93078661D54F7993726D706BA7951D:~:text=202.%20Extension%20of%20taxes%20funding%20Airport%20and"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8289/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-8289.png","v":"0e3c0cf02152","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 8289, 118th Congress: Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, Part II. House: 385 Yea, 24 Nay. Senate: unanimous consent. Outcome: Became law, 10 May 2024."}}