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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3477 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to require certain air carriers 
to develop and regularly update an operational resiliency strategy, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2025 
Mr. LARSEN of Washington (for himself and Mr. COHEN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to require certain 
air carriers to develop and regularly update an oper-
ational resiliency strategy, 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 ‘‘Ensuring Airline Resil-
iency to Reduce Delays and Cancellations Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AIRLINE OPERATIONAL RESILIENCY PLANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall require a covered carrier to develop and regu-
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larly update an operational resiliency strategy to prevent 
or limit the impact of future flight disruptions on pas-
sengers. 
(b) OPERATIONAL RESILIENCY STRATEGY.—In each 
operational resiliency strategy developed under subsection 
(a), a covered carrier shall include a description of— 
(1) the potential impact of severe weather and 
other reasonably anticipated disruptive events on the 
operations of the carrier and how the carrier seeks 
to prevent or limit the impact of such events on pas-
sengers; 
(2) the potential impact of severe weather 
events and other reasonably anticipated disruptive 
events on— 
(A) staffing models, including the ability of 
such models to ensure the workforce is able to 
adequately respond to such events and resched-
ule passengers, flight crews, operations staff, 
and other appropriate personnel; and 
(B) the current information and technology 
systems of the carrier, including crew sched-
uling systems, and the preparedness of such 
systems to continue operations after such an 
event or disruption; 
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(3) the preparedness of the carrier to maintain 
operations and limit or prevent the impact of other 
potential disruptive events identified by the carrier; 
(4) the extent to which the carrier addresses 
known cybersecurity risks and information tech-
nology deficiencies and vulnerabilities to prevent po-
tential flight disruptions; and 
(5) any other issues the Secretary determines 
appropriate to protect consumers and maintain the 
operational stability of the airline industry. 
(c) PROPRIETARY
INFORMATION.—The Secretary 
shall develop a method to protect the confidentiality of any 
trade secret or proprietary information submitted in an 
operational resiliency strategy under subsection (b). 
(d) EVALUATION.— 
(1) AUDIT.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States shall initiate an audit to 
evaluate the effectiveness of the operational resil-
iency strategies developed under this section by cov-
ered air carriers. 
(2) STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK.—Upon comple-
tion of the audit under paragraph (1), the Comp-
troller General shall solicit responses from the cov-
ered carriers regarding the findings of the audit and 
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include any such responses in the report in para-
graph (3). 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after com-
pletion of the audit conducted under paragraph (1), 
the Comptroller General shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen-
ate a report on the findings of the audit. 
(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to— 
(1) grant additional authority to the Secretary 
beyond the authority to require a covered air carrier 
to develop or update an operational resiliency strat-
egy in accordance with this Act; or 
(2) prevent the Secretary from assessing an 
operational resiliency strategy and providing guid-
ance and technical assistance to a covered carrier in 
developing and updating such a strategy required 
under this Act. 
(f) COVERED CARRIER.—In this section, the term 
‘‘covered carrier’’ has the meaning given such term in sec-
tion 259.3 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
successor regulations). 
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