S 2745
111th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Distracted Flying Act
Introduced: November 5, 2009
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Became law
Nov 5, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Nov 5, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Distracted Flying Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a rulemaking for regulations prohibiting, except for operational, emergency safety-related, or employment- related communications, commercial flight crew members from using personal wireless communications devices or laptop computers while on duty on the flight deck of an aircraft that is in operation.
Subjects persons to certain penalties for violations of the requirements of this Act.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1