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HR 4295 114th Congress House Transportation and Public Works Aviation and airports Transportation employees Worker safety and health

To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to increase the rest periods of flight attendants to the same rest periods of pilots.

Introduced: December 18, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Dec 21, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Dec 18, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Dec 18, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to increase the rest periods for flight attendants to ensure that a flight attendant scheduled to a duty period of 14 hours or less is given a scheduled rest period of at least 10 consecutive hours.

The scheduled duty period may be reduced to at least 9 consecutive hours if the flight attendant is provided a subsequent rest period of at least 11 consecutive hours that: (1) is scheduled to begin within 24 hours after the beginning of the reduced rest period, and (2) occurs between the completion of the scheduled duty period and the commencement of the subsequent duty period.

What's happening now December 21, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jan 8, 2016
 D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
New Jersey · Dec 18, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4295: To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to increase the rest periods of flight attendants to the same rest periods of pilots.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4295/
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"H.R. 4295: To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to increase the rest periods of flight attendants to the same rest periods of pilots.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4295/.
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H.R. 4295, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4295/.
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