S 1524
104th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Air pollution control
Air quality
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Drug abuse
Environmental Protection
Indoor air pollution
Smoking
Airliner Cabin Air Quality Act of 1996
Introduced: January 24, 1996
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Became law
Jan 24, 1996
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Jan 24, 1996
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S346)
Jan 24, 1996
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Airliner Cabin Air Quality Act of 1996 - Amends Federal transportation law to prohibit smoking on all scheduled airline flight segments (currently, just on certain airline flight segments) in interstate or intrastate air transportation.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require all domestic and foreign air carriers to prohibit smoking on any scheduled airline flight within the United States or between a place in the United States and a place outside of it.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1