Helicopter Data and Voice Recorder Requirement Act

Helicopter Data and Voice Recorder Requirement Act

This bill makes it unlawful for an air carrier to operate a single or multiengine, turbine-powered helicopter with one or more passenger seats and one or more pilots without a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5766 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5766

To amend title 49, United States Code, to make it unlawful for any air 
 carrier to operate certain helicopters without a flight data recorder 
          and cockpit voice recorder, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2021

Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Ms. Norton) 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 make it unlawful for any air 
 carrier to operate certain helicopters without a flight data recorder 
          and cockpit voice recorder, 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 ``Helicopter Data and Voice Recorder 
Requirement Act''.

SEC. 2. HELICOPTER RECORDERS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 447 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 44744. Helicopter recorders
    ``It shall be unlawful for any air carrier to operate a single or 
multiengine, turbine-powered helicopter with 1 or more passenger seats 
and 1 or more pilots without a flight data recorder and cockpit voice 
recorder that meet the requirements of section 91.609 of title 14, Code 
of Federal Regulations.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 447 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

``44744. Helicopter recorders.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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