1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Helicopter Data and Voice Recorder Requirement Act”.
Helicopter Data and Voice Recorder Requirement Act
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to make it unlawful for any air carrier to operate certain helicopters without a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, and for other purposes.
2. Helicopter recorders
In general— Chapter 447 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“44741. Helicopter recorders
“It shall be unlawful for any air carrier to operate a single or multiengine, turbine-powered helicopter with 1 or more passenger seats and 1 or more pilots without a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder that meet the requirements of section 91.609 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.”
Clerical amendment— The analysis for chapter 447 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.