103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 904

AMENDMENT
In the Senate of the United States,

March 17 (legislative day, March 3), 1993.

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 904) entitled ‘‘An Act to to amend the Airport

and Airway Safety, Capacity, Noise Improvement, and Intermodal Transportation Act of 1992 with respect to the establishment of the National Commission to Ensure a Strong

Competitive Airline Industry’’, do pass with the following

AMENDMENT:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1 SECTION 1. NATIONAL COMMISSION TO ENSURE A STRONG

2 COMPETITIVE AIRLINE INDUSTRY.

3 (a) APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS.—Paragraph (1) of

4 subsection (e) of section 204 of the Airport and Airway

5 Safety, Capacity, Noise Improvement, and Intermodal

6 Transportation Act of 1992 (49 U.S.C. App. 1371 note) is

7 amended to read as follows:

8 ‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT.—The Commission shall be

9 composed of 15 voting members and 11 nonvoting

10 members as follows:

11 ‘‘(A) 5 voting members and 1 nonvoting

12 member appointed by the President.
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1 ‘‘(B) 3 voting members and 3 nonvoting

2 members appointed by the Speaker of the House

3 of Representatives.

4 ‘‘(C) 2 voting members and 2 nonvoting

5 members appointed by the minority leader of the

6 House of Representatives.

7 ‘‘(D) 3 voting members and 3 nonvoting

8 members appointed by the majority leader of the

9 Senate.

10 ‘‘(E) 2 voting members and 2 nonvoting

11 members appointed by the minority leader of the

12 Senate.’’.

13 (b) QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS.—Paragraph (2) of

14 subsection (e) of such section is amended to read as follows:

15 ‘‘(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—Voting members ap16 pointed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be appointed

17 from among individuals who are experts in aviation

18 economics, finance, international trade, and related

19 disciplines and who can represent airlines, pas20 sengers, shippers, airline employees, aircraft manu21 facturers, general aviation, and the financial commu22 nity.’’.

23 (c) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Paragraph (5) of subsection

24 (e) of such section is amended by striking ‘‘sections 5702

25 and 5703’’ and inserting ‘‘subchapter I of chapter 57’’.
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1 (d) CHAIRMAN.—Paragraph (6) of subsection (e) of

2 such section is amended to read as follows:

3 ‘‘(6) CHAIRMAN.—The President, in consultation

4 with the Speaker of the House of Representatives and

5 the majority leader of the Senate, shall designate the

6 Chairman of the Commission from among its voting

7 members.’’.

8 (e) COMMISSION PANELS.—

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—Such section is further

10 amended by inserting after subsection (e) the follow11 ing new subsection:

12 ‘‘(f) COMMISSION PANELS.—The Chairman shall es13 tablish such panels consisting of voting members of the

14 Commission as the Chairman determines appropriate to

15 carry out the functions of the Commission.’’.

16 (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsections (f),

17 (g), (h), (i), (j), and (k) of such section are redesig18 nated as subsections (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), and (m), re19 spectively.

20 (f) STAFF AND OTHER SUPPORT.—Such section is fur21 ther amended by inserting after subsection (i) (as redesig22 nated by subsection (e)(2) of this section) the following new

23 subsection:

24 ‘‘(j) STAFF AND OTHER SUPPORT.—Upon the request

25 of the Commission or a panel of the Commission, the Sec-
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1 retary of Transportation shall provide the Commission or

2 panel with staff and other support to assist the Commission

3 or panel in carrying out its responsibilities.’’.

4 (g) REPORT.—Subsection (l) of such section (as redes5 ignated by subsection (e)(2) of this section) is amended by

6 striking ‘‘6 months’’ and inserting ‘‘90 days’’.

7 (h) TERMINATION.—Subsection (m) of such section (as

8 redesignated by subsection (e)(2) of this section) is amend9 ed)—

10 (1) by striking ‘‘180th day’’ and inserting ‘‘30th

11 day’’; and

12 (2) by striking ‘‘subsection (j)’’ and inserting

13 ‘‘subsection (l)’’.

14 (i) COMMISSION EXPENDITURES.—Such section is fur15 ther amended by adding at the end the following new sub16 section:

17 ‘‘(n) COMMISSION EXPENDITURES.—Amounts ex18 pended to carry out this section shall not be considered ex19 penses of advisory committees for purposes of section 312

20 of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies

21 Appropriations Act, 1993.’’.

22 (j) PREVIOUSLY APPOINTED MEMBERS.—Such section

23 is further amended by adding at the end the following new

24 subsection:
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1 ‘‘(o) PREVIOUSLY APPOINTED MEMBERS.—Any ap2 pointment made to the Commission before the date of the

3 enactment of this subsection shall not be effective after such

4 date of enactment.’’.

Attest:

Secretary.