PETS Act

Planes Ensuring Total Safety Act or the PETS Act

This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to promulgate regulations: (1) prohibiting the storage of a live animal in an overhead compartment of a flight in air transportation, and (2) establishing fines for a violation of such prohibition.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5315 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5315

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
   promulgate regulations to prohibit the storage of live animals in 
                  overhead compartments of airplanes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2018

Mr. Donovan (for himself and Mr. Cohen) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
   promulgate regulations to prohibit the storage of live animals in 
                  overhead compartments of airplanes.

    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 ``Planes Ensuring Total Safety Act'' 
or the ``PETS Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF PETS ON AIRPLANES.

    Not later than 1 year from the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall promulgate 
regulations that--
            (1) prohibit the storing of a live animal in any overhead 
        compartment of any flight in air transportation (as defined in 
        section 40102(a)(5) of title 49, United States Code); and
            (2) establish civil fines for violations of the prohibition 
        under paragraph (1).
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