Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Reimbursable Screening Services Program Extension Act of 2026
The bill extends and modestly expands federally reimbursed airport screening through FY2031 to preserve and broaden screening availability (especially for smaller airports) and gives the FAA more operational flexibility, at the cost of increased federal spending and continued limits that will leave some airports unserved.
One-Stop Pilot Program Extension Act
The bill streamlines international checked-bag transfers and lowers duplicative screening burdens by allowing trusted foreign screening and image-sharing, improving travel efficiency and some security targeting, but it raises safety, privacy, passenger-access, and implementation-cost risks that shift operational burdens onto carriers and foreign airports.
Improving Travel for Military Members Act
The bill speeds security screening for active-duty service members and families at selected airports through a three-year TSA pilot and greater local flexibility, trading off potential longer waits and confusion for other travelers and leaving many service members without permanent, nationwide access.
Improving Travel for American Families Act
The bill offers targeted, short-term relief for families by creating expedited security lanes at busy airports and improving TSA flexibility, but it risks confusion from vetting rules, potential longer waits for other travelers if staffing is reallocated, and only provides limited, temporary coverage.
SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
The bill secures dedicated, predictable funding to improve airport security technology and operations, but does so by locking up fee revenue in ways that may raise passenger fees, reduce budget flexibility, and offer limited enforceability for some provisions.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
ALERT Act
The bill substantially strengthens aviation safety and oversight across civilian and military operations—likely reducing collision risk and increasing accountability—but does so at the cost of significant equipage, implementation, and administrative burdens and potential operational disruptions for military units, carriers, and some general aviation operators.
Wildfire Aerial Response Safety Act
The bill aims to improve wildfire response speed and safety (and potentially reduce response costs) by studying UAS interference and countermeasures, but it raises privacy/mission‑creep risks and could prompt additional unquantified public spending.
Recreational Drone Empowerment Act
The bill trades clearer statutory direction for FAA/DOT (reducing enforcement ambiguity) against the risk that the revised wording could broaden restrictions on hobbyists and trigger administrative costs to implement the change.
Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier and cheaper for nonprimary airports and states to repair and build pavements by allowing State highway specifications and faster safety decisions, but trades off potential aviation-specific safety and maintenance risks, timing uncertainty from review extensions, and greater variation in standards and oversight.
Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
The bill modernizes aviation maintenance records to improve safety and operational efficiency, but it shifts costs and transition burdens onto small aviation businesses and raises cybersecurity and implementation risks that must be managed.
ACPAC Modernization Act
The bill clarifies that ticket agents are represented on the aviation consumer advisory committee but may introduce statutory ambiguity by removing 'ticket agents,' from another subsection, trading clearer representation for potential legal uncertainty.
Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act
The bill opens U.S. airspace to quieter civil supersonic flight with firm FAA timelines and community protections against sonic booms, trading faster travel and industry certainty for possible local noise/traffic impacts, higher compliance costs, and added FAA implementation burdens.
Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act
The bill modernizes FAA credentialing to make presenting and managing certificates easier and more standardized, but does so at the cost of creating access challenges for less‑connected airmen, potential cybersecurity/privacy risks, and implementation expenses.
End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act of 2026
The bill clarifies and preserves public access to risk‑based expedited screening and strengthens agency guidance and accountability while eliminating automatic congressional screening privileges—trading improved consistency and equal treatment for increased privacy/fairness concerns, potential transparency and implementation risks, and modest impacts on urgent congressional travel.
ROTOR Act
The bill strengthens aviation safety, transparency, and civil–military coordination for travelers and operators, but it does so at the cost of new equipment mandates, implementation and reporting expenses, increased administrative workload, and potential operational, privacy, and national‑security tradeoffs.
Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens hygiene protections and oversight for infant items at airport security—better protecting infants and standardizing practices—but it may increase screening times, impose costs on airports/contractors (possibly passed to travelers), and leave short-term gaps if guidance isn’t uniformly enforced.
Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act
The bill simplifies and clarifies airport grant eligibility and may reduce some administrative burdens, but by narrowing coverage for storage facilities it risks shifting costs to local governments/taxpayers and could reduce airport resilience and safety.
Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025
The bill aims to reduce stigma and modernize aviation mental‑health certification—potentially improving safety and speeding reinstatements—while redirecting recurring FAA funds and imposing administrative changes that could raise costs, introduce transitional uncertainty, and leave some pilots wary of career impacts.
NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2025
The bill supplies substantial, targeted funding, clearer definitions, and pro‑commercial provisions to sustain U.S. human spaceflight, science, and industrial growth, at the cost of higher taxpayer outlays, increased procurement and compliance constraints, and elevated risks of reduced competition, resource diversion, and geopolitical or ethical tensions.
Air Traffic Control Workforce Development Act of 2025
The bill directs federal funding and program changes to expand and modernize ATC training, improve controller recruitment and safety, and clarify radar modernization choices—benefiting trainees, controllers, and public safety—while increasing federal spending and creating risks around hiring preferences, discretionary grant uses, local radar transition costs, and administrative burdens.
DEFENSE Act
The bill empowers state and local authorities with regulated tools and oversight to counter dangerous drones—improving public-safety and reducing interference risks—while increasing privacy/surveillance exposure, the potential for accidental disruption to aircraft/communications, and local implementation costs.
Cabin Air Safety Act of 2026
The bill improves detection, medical follow-up, and regulator ability to identify causes of cabin air events and drive better monitoring, but does so at the cost of added industry burden, potential operational disruptions, proprietary/security concerns, and a tight implementation timeline.
Runway SAFE-T Act
The bill aims to reduce vehicle-involved surface incidents by combining standardized training guidance and targeted grants—improving safety and efficiency—while imposing costs, administrative burdens, and potential uneven access to improvements that may strain smaller airports and increase federal spending.
Jimmy Deal Trafficking Survivors Assistance Act of 2026
The bill improves identification, trauma‑informed handling, and travel support for trafficking survivors at airports and makes nonprofits eligible to coordinate assistance — but it increases TSA/airport administrative burdens and costs, raises privacy and access‑consistency risks (especially for rural or urgent cases), and leaves some gaps around minors and non‑nonprofit providers.
McCarty and Heideman Air Safety Enhancement Act
The bill improves safety and situational awareness for low‑altitude flight operations through clearer notification rules and better digital obstacle data, while imposing some compliance costs, added administrative burden, and potential increased penalties on those who create temporary hazards.
Good Jobs for Good Airports Act
The bill raises pay, benefits, and enforcement for many airport service workers—improving incomes and remedies—while increasing costs and compliance burdens for employers that could lead to higher prices, reduced hiring or automation, and uneven protection for some frontline staff.
Unmanned System Command and Control Integration Assessment Act of 2026
The bill promotes interoperable, cyber-hardened unmanned-system command-and-control through clearer requirements, independent review, and defined standards—improving military effectiveness and informing civil integration—while shifting costs, imposing recurring compliance and procurement burdens, introducing information-security trade-offs, and risking slower deployments and constrained innovation because implementation must be funded largely from existing RDT&E resources.
Air Carrier Access Amendments Act
The bill meaningfully strengthens enforceable rights and penalties to improve air travel accessibility for people with disabilities, but it increases liability, compliance costs, and litigation/enforcement pressure on carriers that could raise fares, reduce services, and strain courts.
