Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Reimbursable Screening Services Program Extension Act of 2026
The bill trades higher federal spending to extend and expand reimbursable airport screening—improving continuity and access for more small/regional airports—against continued limits on which airports qualify and increased costs to taxpayers.
One-Stop Pilot Program Extension Act
The bill speeds and simplifies baggage transfers and accepts trusted foreign screening to reduce delays and costs, but it increases reliance on foreign screening and international image-sharing—raising security, privacy, and potential cost‑shift risks for passengers and carriers.
Improving Travel for Military Members Act
The bill creates a pilot to speed security screening for military travelers and allow TSA to shift checkpoint resources for efficiency, at the cost of added taxpayer expense and a risk of longer waits or misapplied enforcement for other travelers if not carefully managed.
Improving Travel for American Families Act
The bill pilots expedited airport lanes to speed screening for families and test operational changes while keeping vetting standards, but it risks slower service for other travelers, added public costs, and perceptions of unequal treatment.
SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
The bill prioritizes dedicating passenger-paid fees to strengthen aviation security and technology—improving screening and planning—but likely raises costs for travelers and reduces fiscal flexibility for other programs, with some uncertainty about enforcement and timing.
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
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
This bill clarifies and standardizes access to expedited air‑travel screening—promoting equal treatment and clearer agency authority—while raising privacy and fairness concerns from expanded program definitions and TSA discretion, and imposing modest administrative and operational trade‑offs.
ROTOR Act
The bill aims to improve aviation safety, oversight, and military–civil coordination through expanded ADS‑B requirements, audits, data‑sharing, and a new coordination office, but it imposes equipment costs, administrative burdens, tighter deadlines, and potential exposure or equity risks—especially for small operators and sensitive military operations.
ACERO Act
The bill aims to strengthen wildfire response and responder coordination through NASA-led research and procurement limits that reduce security risks, but it could restrict access to affordable drones, raise privacy concerns, and divert or duplicate federal resources.
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.
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.
Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act
The bill extends employment opportunities for many older pilots and reduces regulatory/legal disruption while keeping FAA training oversight, but it raises safety and fairness concerns for some passengers and pilots and may delay stricter medical screening.
WATCH Personnel Act of 2026
The bill secures immediate pay boosts and pay-continuity protections for TSOs—helping retention and airport-security continuity—but raises federal personnel costs, may strain appropriations or force tradeoffs in agency budgets, leaves the bonus outside basic-pay benefits, and creates short-term funding and administrative risks.
Deescalation Drone Pilot Program Act of 2026
The bill creates a regulated pathway to test and deploy U.S.-made nonlethal drones—potentially reducing fatalities and supporting domestic industry—while raising notable privacy, safety, accountability, and cost trade‑offs for communities and government purchasers.
NASA UAS Detection Act
The bill strengthens NASA’s ability to detect and track threatening UAS and standardizes technologies and safeguards, at the trade-off of added taxpayer costs, potential privacy intrusion and mission‑creep risks, and possible safety disruptions if interagency coordination fails.
Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act
The bill modernizes and clarifies FAA credentialing by allowing digital certificates and enabling electronic verification to speed inspections, at the cost of FAA implementation expenses and potential access and compliance burdens for some pilots—particularly those in low-connectivity or resource-constrained situations.
Protect Your Points Act of 2026
