A bill to improve security standards for international air transportation.
Air Traveler Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to assess the efficacy of security measures at foreign airports which serve United States carriers or from which foreign air carriers serve the United States.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) use security criteria equal to or above certain internationally established standards; (2) report to the Congress regarding such assessments; (3) notify the appropriate authorities if a foreign airport does not administer effective security measures; (4) publish in the Federal Register all foreign airports which have failed to bring their security measures up to an acceptable level of effectiveness; and (5) prominently display at all United States airports from which air carriers provide foreign air transportation the identity of foreign airports whose security measures have not reached an acceptable level of effectiveness.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance concerning aviation security to a foreign government; and (2) withhold or impose conditions on the operating authority of any carrier to engage in foreign air transportation utilizing a foreign airport with deficient security measures.
Directs the Secretary ( (without notice or a hearing) the right of an air carrier (or foreign air carrier) to engage in foreign air transportation to or from an airport which the Secretary has determined presents a safety threat to either passengers, aircraft, or the public interest.
Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding the result of a study of the need for an expanded air marshal program on international flights by United States air carriers. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to permit air transportation security personnel to carry firearms and to make warrantless arrests if such personnel have reasonable grounds to believe a felony is being committed.
Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for research and development of aviation security measures.
Became Public Law No: 99-83.
Committee on Commerce. Measure incorporated into measure H.R. 2796 ordered to be reported.
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
House Committee on Public Works and Transportation Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Public Works and Transportation Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Called up by House by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House by Voice Vote.
Passed House by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Subcommittee on Aviation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-290.
Committee on Commerce. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Commerce incorporated provisions of related measures S. 1436 in reported measure.
Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Danforth with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
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Committee on Commerce. Reported to Senate by Senator Danforth with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 243.
Measure laid before Senate.
By Senator Danforth from Committee on Commerce filed written report. Report No. 99-113.
By Senator Danforth from Committee on Commerce filed written report. Report No. 99-113.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-0. Record Vote No: 162.
Roll Call #162 (Senate)Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-0. Record Vote No: 162.
Roll Call #162 (Senate)See S.960 (Title V).