HR4994Referred to Committee
Safe Air on Airplanes Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-08-19
Introduced
13
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Maxwell Frost
Democrat · FL · Representative
Votes with party: 97.1% (650 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/F000476
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (13)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
- John Garamendi (D-CA-8)Original· 2025-08-19
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)Original· 2025-08-19
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)· 2025-09-15
- Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC-4)· 2025-12-18
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)· 2026-02-09
- Bill Foster (D-IL-11)· 2026-02-11
- Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6)· 2026-03-03
- Maxine Dexter (D-OR-3)· 2026-03-09
- Chris Pappas (D-NH-1)· 2026-03-12
- Don Bacon (R-NE-2)· 2026-04-06
- Julie Johnson (D-TX-32)· 2026-04-27
- Maxine Waters (D-CA-43)· 2026-04-27
Latest Action
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureReferred To · 2025-08-19
Previously
- Transportation and Infrastructure CommitteeReferred To · 2025-08-19
Plain-English Summary
Safe Air on Airplanes Act This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to update regulations to phase out and prohibit bleed air systems in certain types of aircraft. In general, a bleed air system uses compressed air that is taken from an aircraft engine that is upstream of the combustion chamber and provides pressurized air for the aircraft’s environmental control system (e.g., ventilation). Under the bill, the FAA must prohibit new turbine and turboprop aircraft designs from using bleed air systems, require (beginning seven years after the bill’s enactment) that any bleed air system in a newly manufactured aircraft is fitted with a filter (i.e., a device that removes gaseous and particulate components of oil fumes), and provide for a phaseout (over a 30-year period) of the use of bleed air systems in existing turbine and turboprop aircraft designs.
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Subjects
Transportation and Public Works
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