Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The bill requires every aircraft operating in Class B airspace to have functioning ADS–B In and ADS–B Out equipment installed, activated, and receiving whenever taxiing or in flight. It forbids Department of Transportation or FAA regulations that exempt any aircraft (including military) from this requirement and repeals the Department of Defense exemption created in Section 1046 of the FY2019 NDAA.
Safety and modernization benefits versus costs to small owners
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly establishes a substantive regulatory mandate and integrates with existing regulatory citations, but it relies heavily on delegated rulemaking and omits key implementation, fiscal, and enforcement details.
The bill requires every aircraft operating in Class B airspace to have functioning ADS–B In and ADS–B Out equipment installed, activated, and receiving whenever taxiing or in flight.
It forbids Department of Transportation or FAA regulations that exempt any aircraft (including military) from this requirement and repeals the Department of Defense exemption created in Section 1046 of the FY2019 NDAA.
The FAA Administrator sets performance requirements for the equipment; the bill defines ADS–B In, ADS–B Out, Administrator, and aircraft.
Narrow technical aim helps, but immediate effective date, ban on exemptions, cost burdens, and DOD exemption repeal lower prospects.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly establishes a substantive regulatory mandate and integrates with existing regulatory citations, but it relies heavily on delegated rulemaking and omits key implementation, fiscal, and enforcement details.
Safety and modernization benefits versus costs to small owners
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Safety and modernization benefits versus costs to small owners
Likely broadly supportive because the mandate advances aviation safety, traffic management, and data-driven oversight.
Would want added privacy safeguards and clarity that public-safety and civil-rights concerns are addressed.
Cautiously favorable about safety and system modernization, but concerned about cost, implementation timing, and legal practicality of forbidding exemptions for military or special missions.
Wants clear cost estimates and transition plans.
Likely opposed due to federal overreach, unfunded mandates on aircraft owners, and mandating military compliance without regard to operational security.
Views the prohibition on exemptions as heavy-handed.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
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Narrow technical aim helps, but immediate effective date, ban on exemptions, cost burdens, and DOD exemption repeal lower prospects.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Safety and modernization benefits versus costs to small owners
Narrow technical aim helps, but immediate effective date, ban on exemptions, cost burdens, and DOD exemption repeal lower prospects.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly establishes a substantive regulatory mandate and integrates with existing regulatory citations, but it relies heavily on delegated rulemaking and…
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