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H.R. 3679: Healthy Air Travel Act

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H.R. 3679: Healthy Air Travel Act

118th Congress · introduced 2023-05-25 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2023-05-25 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila [D-FL-20] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Healthy Air Travel Act

Plain summary

Healthy Air Travel Act This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to establish an interagency task force to develop and implement a strategy to identify and advance research on communicable diseases in air travel. The task force must consult with representatives from the aviation industry, health experts, and labor stakeholders in developing the strategy. Under the bill, the term communicable disease refers to certain diseases that have the potential to cause a future epidemic or pandemic of infectious disease that would constitute a public health emergency of international concern as declared, after the date of the bill's enactment, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Official text

Healthy Air Travel Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila [D-FL-20] · 14 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), André Carson (D-IN), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Michael R. Turner (R-OH)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong118-hr3679 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong118 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong118