Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
Official title: To provide for funding from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for all Federal Aviation Administration activities for a certain period in the event of a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
This bill provides continuing appropriations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) if (1) an appropriations bill for the FAA has not been enacted before a fiscal year begins, or (2) a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the FAA is not in effect.
Specifically, the bill provides appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund at the rate of operations that was provided for the prior fiscal year to continue programs, projects, and activities that were funded in the preceding fiscal year.
The bill provides the appropriations until the earlier of (1) the date on which the applicable regular appropriations bill for the fiscal year or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations becomes law, or (2) the date that is 30 days after the first day of a lapse in appropriations.
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- THE DOERRER GROUP LLC
- FEDEX CORPORATION
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES
- DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
- NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- U.S. Customs & Border Protection
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5451: Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5451/
"H.R. 5451: Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5451/.
H.R. 5451, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5451/.
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