Restoring Essential Service to Small Airports Act

Restoring Essential Service to Small Airports Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to reinstitute a subsidy under the Essential Air Service program for all airports that were removed from such program after FY2015. The Essential Air Service program was established to ensure that small communities that were served by certificated air carriers before deregulation would continue to receive scheduled passenger service, with subsidies if necessary.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8233 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8233

  To direct the Secretary of Transportation to reinstitute subsidies 
 under the Essential Air Service program for certain airports, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2020

  Mr. Trone (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Reed) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Transportation to reinstitute subsidies 
 under the Essential Air Service program for certain airports, 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 ``Restoring Essential Service to Small 
Airports Act''.

SEC. 2. COVID-19 ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM REINSTATEMENT.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall reinstitute a subsidy under the 
Essential Air Service program for all airports that were removed from 
such program after fiscal year 2015.
    (b) Timing.--For purposes of this section, an airport described in 
subsection (a) shall be reinstituted for the longer of a period of 1 
year beginning on the date of enactment of this Act or the period in 
which such airport meets the qualifying criteria for an airport under 
the Essential Air Service Program.
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