I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3334 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations with respect 
to ensuring families are able to sit together on flights, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2015 
Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois (for himself and Mr. NADLER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations 
with respect to ensuring families are able to sit together 
on flights, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Families Flying To-
gether Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Airlines need to prioritize seating families 
traveling with small children together. 
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(2) The Department of Transportation con-
tinues to receive ‘‘unsatisfactory seat assignment’’ 
complaints from parents whose seat assignments 
were separate from their small children. 
SEC. 3. SEATING FAMILIES TOGETHER ON FLIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall issue regulations directing each air carrier 
to— 
(1) establish a policy to ensure, to the extent 
practicable, that a family that purchases tickets for 
a flight with that air carrier is seated together dur-
ing that flight; and 
(2) make the policy described in paragraph (1) 
available to the public on an appropriate Internet 
Web site of the air carrier. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) AIR CARRIER.—The term ‘‘air carrier’’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 40102(a) of 
title 49, United States Code. 
(2) FAMILY.—The term ‘‘family’’ means a 
grouping of individuals that includes, at a min-
imum— 
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(A) a child who is 12 years of age or 
younger; and 
(B) an individual who is— 
(i) 18 years of age or older; and 
(ii) responsible for accompanying that 
child, including a parent or legal guardian 
of that child. 
SEC. 4. FAMILIES TRAVELING TOGETHER. 
Section 41712 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) FAMILIES TRAVELING TOGETHER.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be an unfair or de-
ceptive practice under subsection (a) for any ticket 
agent, air carrier, foreign air carrier, or other person 
offering to sell tickets for air transportation to fail 
to disclose, whether verbally in oral communication 
or in writing in written or electronic communication, 
prior to an individual’s purchase of more than one 
ticket for a covered flight, the notification in para-
graph (2), if such purchase includes a ticket for a 
minor. 
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION.—The notification required 
under paragraph (1) shall include the following 
statement: ‘It is not possible to assign 2 or more 
seats together on at least 1 of the flights you have 
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selected. Please be advised that you may not be able 
to sit next to other members of your travel party, 
even if you are traveling with a minor.’. 
‘‘(3) COVERED FLIGHT.—For purposes of this 
section, a ‘covered flight’ is a flight of an air carrier 
or foreign air carrier in air transportation or foreign 
air transportation as to which— 
‘‘(A) a purchaser of a ticket may specify 
an advance seat assignment, with or without 
the assessment of any charge or fee; and 
‘‘(B) 2 or more laterally adjacent seats are 
not available on the flight for advance assign-
ment.’’. 
Æ 
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