To establish requirements for the adoption of any new or revised requirement providing for the screening, testing, or treatment of an airman or an air traffic controller for a sleep disorder, and for other purposes.

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on February 6, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), consistent with accepted medical standards and practices, to implement or enforce a requirement providing for the screening, testing, or treatment of airmen or air traffic controllers for sleep disorders (including obstructive sleep apnea) only if: (1) it is adopted pursuant to a rulemaking proceeding in the case of an airman, and (2) the Federal Aviation Administration meets its collective bargaining obligations to its employees in the case of an air traffic controller.

Applies this Act only to a requirement adopted on or after November 1, 2013.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3578 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3578

    To ensure that any new or revised requirement providing for the 
    screening, testing, or treatment of an airman or an air traffic 
  controller for a sleep disorder is adopted pursuant to a rulemaking 
                  proceeding, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2013

 Mr. LoBiondo (for himself, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. 
   Graves of Missouri, Mr. Lipinski, and Mr. Meehan) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To ensure that any new or revised requirement providing for the 
    screening, testing, or treatment of an airman or an air traffic 
  controller for a sleep disorder is adopted pursuant to a rulemaking 
                  proceeding, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MEDICAL CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR AIRMEN AND AIR 
              TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS RELATING TO SLEEP DISORDERS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation may implement or 
enforce a requirement providing for the screening, testing, or 
treatment (including consideration of all possible treatment 
alternatives) of an airman or an air traffic controller for a sleep 
disorder only if the requirement is adopted pursuant to a rulemaking 
proceeding.
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to a requirement 
that was in force before November 1, 2013.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Airman.--The term ``airman'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 40102(a) of title 49, United States Code.
            (2) Air traffic controller.--The term ``air traffic 
        controller'' means a civilian employee of the Department of 
        Transportation described in section 2109 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (3) Sleep disorder.--The term ``sleep disorder'' includes 
        obstructive sleep apnea.
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