Runway Integrity and Military Readiness Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8272 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8272

   To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from conditioning the 
receipt of Federal financial assistance on reducing the dimensions of a 
   runway, an apron, or a taxiway of certain airports, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2024

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from conditioning the 
receipt of Federal financial assistance on reducing the dimensions of a 
   runway, an apron, or a taxiway of 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 ``Runway Integrity and Military 
Readiness Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN RUNWAY LENGTH REQUIREMENTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Transportation may not require an airport to shorten the length or 
width of the runway, apron, or taxiway of the airport as a condition 
for the receipt of Federal financial assistance if the airport directly 
supports a base of the United States Air Force or the Air National 
Guard at the airport, regardless of the stationing of military 
aircraft.
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