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H.R. 884 — what changed

National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act of 2022

From Introduced in House to Reported in House. 2 sections amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Section 1 Short title

changed This Act may be cited as the “National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act of 2021”.2022”.

Sec. 2 National aviation preparedness plan

(a)
changed In general— Not later than 1 year 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the heads of such other Federal departments or agencies as the Secretary of Transportation considers appropriate, shall develop a national aviation preparedness plan for communicable disease outbreaks.
(b)
Contents of plan— The plan developed under subsection (a) shall, at a minimum—
(1)
provide airports and air carriers with an adaptable and scalable framework with which to align the individual plans, including the emergency response plans, of such airports and air carriers and provide guidance as to each individual plan;
(2)
changed improve coordination among airports, air carriers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other appropriate Federal entities, and State and local governments and health agencies with respect to developing policies that increase the effectiveness of screening, testing, quarantining, preparing for and contact-tracing with respect responding to air carrier passengers;communicable disease outbreaks;
(3)
to the extent practicable, improve coordination among relevant international entities;
(4)
changed require that frontline at-risk employees are equipped with create a process to identify appropriate personal protective equipment equipment, if any, for covered employees to reduce the likelihood of exposure to a covered communicable disease;disease, and thereafter issue recommendations for the equipage of such employees;
(5)
changed ensure that frontline at-risk employees are appropriately considered for access create a process to necessary and available vaccines identify appropriate techniques, strategies, and therapeutics to reduce protective infrastructure, if any, for the effect cleaning, disinfecting, and likelihood sanitization of exposure aircraft and enclosed facilities owned, operated, or used by an air carrier or airport, and thereafter issue recommendations pertaining to such techniques, strategies, and transmission of a covered communicable disease;protective infrastructure;
(6)
changed require that aircraft and enclosed facilities owned, operated, or used by an air carrier or airport are cleaned, disinfected, and sanitized, and can have installed identify and maintained protective infrastructure where appropriate, assign Federal agency roles in accordance with CDC guidelines for preventing and containing the spread deployment of emerging and existing technologies and solutions to reduce covered communicable diseases;diseases in the aviation ecosystem;
(7)
removed identify and assign Federal agency roles in the development and deployment of emerging and existing technologies and solutions to reduce covered communicable diseases in the aviation ecosystem;
(7)
renumbered was (3)(10) clearly delineate the responsibilities of the sponsors and operators of airports, air carriers, and Federal agencies in responding to a covered communicable disease;
(8)
added incorporate, as appropriate, the recommendations made by the Comptroller General of the United States to the Secretary of Transportation contained in the report titled “Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Comprehensive Federal Plan Needed for U.S. Aviation System's Preparedness”, issued in December 2015 (GAO-16-127);
(9)
removed incorporate the recommendations made by the Comptroller General of the United States to the Secretary of Transportation contained in the report titled “Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Comprehensive Federal Plan Needed for U.S. Aviation System’s Preparedness” issued in December 2015 (GAO–16–127);
(9)
renumbered was (3)(12) consider the latest peer-reviewed scientific studies that address communicable disease with respect to air transportation; and
(10)
renumbered was (3)(13) consider funding constraints.
(c)
Consultation— When developing the plan under subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation shall consult with aviation industry and labor stakeholders, including representatives of—
(1)
air carriers, which shall include domestic air carriers consisting of major air carriers, low-cost carriers, regional air carriers and cargo carriers;
(2)
airport operators, including with respect to large hub, medium hub, small hub, and nonhub commercial service airports;
(3)
labor organizations that represent airline pilots, flight attendants, air carrier airport customer service representatives, and air carrier maintenance, repair, and overhaul workers;
(4)
the labor organization certified under section 7111 of title 5, United States Code, as the exclusive bargaining representative of air traffic controllers of the Federal Aviation Administration;
(5)
the labor organization certified under such section as the exclusive bargaining representative of airway transportation systems specialists and aviation safety inspectors of the Federal Aviation Administration;
(6)
trade associations representing air carriers and airports;
(7)
aircraft manufacturing companies; and
(8)
such other stakeholders as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(d)
Report— Not later than 30 days after the plan is developed under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that includes such plan.
(e)
changed Review of plan— Not later than 1 year after the date on which a report is submitted under subsection (d), and biannually again not later than 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall review the plan included in such report and, after consultation with aviation industry and labor stakeholders, make changes by rule as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(f)
GAO study— Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall conduct and submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a study assessing the national aviation preparedness plan developed under subsection (a), including—
(1)
whether such plan—
(A)
is responsive to any previous recommendations relating to aviation preparedness with respect to an outbreak of a covered communicable disease or global health emergency made by the Comptroller General; and
(B)
meets the obligations of the United States under international conventions and treaties; and
(2)
the extent to which the United States aviation system is prepared to respond to an outbreak of a covered communicable disease.
(g)
Definitions— In this section:
(1)
changed Frontline at-risk Covered employee— The term frontline at-risk employee “covered employee” means—
(A)
an individual whose job duties require interaction with air carrier passengers on a regular and continuing basis and who is an employee of—
(i)
an air carrier;
(ii)
an air carrier contractor;
(iii)
an airport; or
(iv)
the Federal Government; or
(B)
an air traffic controller or systems safety specialist of the Federal Aviation Administration.
(2)
changed Covered communicable disease— The term covered “covered communicable disease disease” means a communicable disease that has the potential to cause an a future epidemic or pandemic of infectious disease that would constitute a public health emergency of international concern as declared declared, after the date of enactment of this Act, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d).