I 
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 immigra-
tion 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 Com-
mittee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS SEEKING 
FLIGHT TRAINING ARE CHECKED AGAINST 
IMMIGRATION RECORDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 44939 
of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through 
(F) of paragraph (1) as clauses (i) through (vi), re-
spectively; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
(3) by striking ‘‘12,500 pounds’’ and inserting 
‘‘12,500 pounds—’’; 
(4) by inserting before subparagraph (A), as re-
designated by paragraph (2) of this subsection, a 
new paragraph (2); 
(5) by moving the text beginning with ‘‘to an’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘only if—’’ to such 
paragraph (2); 
(6) by inserting before such paragraph (2) the 
following new paragraph (1): 
‘‘(1) an individual seeking such training only 
upon receipt of information from the Assistant Sec-
retary that the individual has been checked against 
databases available to the Assistant Secretary and 
the Assistant Secretary has determined that the in-
dividual is— 
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‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; 
‘‘(B) a national of the United States; 
‘‘(C) an alien lawfully admitted to the 
United States for permanent residence; or 
‘‘(D) an alien temporarily admitted to the 
United States as a nonimmigrant for the pur-
pose of obtaining such training; and’’; and 
(7) in the subsection heading by striking 
‘‘WAITING PERIOD.—’’ and inserting ‘‘REQUIRE-
MENTS; WAITING PERIOD.—’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph (B) 
of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of section 44949, as 
redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by striking 
‘‘paragraph (1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The amendments made 
by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to an individual 
seeking flight training on or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 2. REQUIRING FLIGHT SCHOOLS TO BE CERTIFIED BY 
FAA. 
Section 44939 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) CERTIFICATION BY FAA.—The Secretary shall 
require flight schools to be certified by the Administrator 
of the Federal Aviation Administration pursuant to part 
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141 or part 142 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations 
(or similar successor regulations).’’. 
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