Baggage Fee Fairness Act of 2015

Baggage Fee Fairness Act of 2015

This bill prohibits any air carrier from collecting a checked baggage fee from an air passenger if the fee amount exceeds the total amount of passenger facility charges ($1-$4.50) that could be imposed (without regard to whether the charges are actually imposed) on a passenger by eligible agencies for boarding a flight.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3149 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3149

To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a limit on checked 
       baggage fees imposed by air carriers on passengers in air 
                transportation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2015

   Mr. Mica introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a limit on checked 
       baggage fees imposed by air carriers on passengers in air 
                transportation, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Baggage Fee Fairness Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CHECKED BAGGAGE FEES.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 417 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 41725. Limitation on checked baggage fees
    ``Beginning on the 180th day following the date of enactment of 
this section, an air carrier or foreign air carrier may not collect 
from a passenger a fee for an item of checked baggage on a flight in 
passenger air transportation if the amount of the fee exceeds the total 
amount of passenger facility charges that could be imposed (without 
regard to whether the charges are actually imposed) on the passenger by 
eligible agencies for boardings associated with that flight under 
paragraphs (1) and (4) of section 40117(b).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for such chapter is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 41724 the following:

``41725. Limitation on checked baggage fees.''.
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