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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 999 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that individuals seeking 

training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked against immigration information in the possession of the Secretary of Homeland Security 

to ensure that such individuals are citizens or nationals of the United 

States, lawful permanent resident aliens, or nonimmigrants admitted 

for a limited period to obtain such training, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 6, 2013 

Mrs. BLACK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that 

individuals seeking training in the operation of certain 

aircraft be checked against immigration information in 

the possession of the Secretary of Homeland Security 

to ensure that such individuals are citizens or nationals 

of the United States, lawful permanent resident aliens, 

or nonimmigrants admitted for a limited period to obtain 

such training, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS SEEKING 

2 FLIGHT TRAINING ARE CHECKED AGAINST 

3 IMMIGRATION RECORDS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 44939 

5 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 

6 (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through 

7 (F) of paragraph (1) as clauses (i) through (vi), re8 spectively; 

9 (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 

10 subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 

11 (3) by striking ‘‘12,500 pounds’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘12,500 pounds—’’; 

13 (4) by inserting before subparagraph (A), as re14 designated by paragraph (2) of this subsection, a 

15 new paragraph (2); 

16 (5) by moving the text beginning with ‘‘to an’’ 

17 and all that follows through ‘‘only if—’’ to such 

18 paragraph (2); 

19 (6) by inserting before such paragraph (2) the 

20 following new paragraph (1): 

21 ‘‘(1) an individual seeking such training only 

22 upon receipt of information from the Assistant Sec23 retary that the individual has been checked against 

24 databases available to the Assistant Secretary and 

25 the Assistant Secretary has determined that the in26 dividual is— 


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1 ‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; 

2 ‘‘(B) a national of the United States; 

3 ‘‘(C) an alien lawfully admitted to the 

4 United States for permanent residence; or 

5 ‘‘(D) an alien temporarily admitted to the 

6 United States as a nonimmigrant for the pur7 pose of obtaining such training; and’’; and 

8 (7) in the subsection heading by striking 

9 ‘‘WAITING PERIOD.—’’ and inserting ‘‘REQUIRE10 MENTS; WAITING PERIOD.—’’. 

11 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph (B) 

12 of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of section 44949, as 

13 redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by striking 

14 ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’. 

15 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The amendments made 

16 by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to an individual 

17 seeking flight training on or after the date of the enact18 ment of this Act. 

19 SEC. 2. REQUIRING FLIGHT SCHOOLS TO BE CERTIFIED BY 

20 FAA. 

21 Section 44939 of title 49, United States Code, is 

22 amended by adding at the end the following: 

23 ‘‘(j) CERTIFICATION BY FAA.—The Secretary shall 

24 require flight schools to be certified by the Administrator 

25 of the Federal Aviation Administration pursuant to part 


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1 141 or part 142 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations 

2 (or similar successor regulations).’’. 

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