I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3676 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a child safe viewing 
area within which covered air carriers shall not display violent in-flight 
programming. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 
Mr. SHULER (for himself, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. DONNELLY, Mr. 
PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. HILL, Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. WAMP, Mr. 
SOUDER, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. 
BARROW, and Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a 
child safe viewing area within which covered air carriers 
shall not display violent in-flight programming. 
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 ‘‘Family Friendly 
Flights Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Children are a captive audience for publicly 
viewable in-flight entertainment on commercial avia-
tion flights. 
(2) Children under the age of 13 are often ex-
posed to non-cartoon images of murder, torture, 
general violence and other images terrifying to most 
children while traveling on domestic flights in the 
United States. 
SEC. 3. CHILD SAFE VIEWING AREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 417 of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 41724. Child Safe Viewing Area 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF CHILD SAFE VIEWING 
AREA.—If a covered air carrier provides publicly viewable 
entertainment screens on which violent in-flight program-
ming is displayed, such carrier shall provide a child safe 
viewing area for all passengers who are children under the 
age of 13 and for at least 1 adult travel companion per 
child. 
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION OF SEATING.— 
‘‘(1) PRIORITY
OF
SEATING
FOR
UNACCOM-
PANIED MINORS.—All unaccompanied children under 
the age of 13 shall be seated in the child safe view-
ing area. 
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‘‘(2) OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST SEATING IN 
CHILD SAFE VIEWING AREA.—A covered air carrier, 
a ticket agent, or an individual employed by a cov-
ered air carrier or ticket agent, when issuing a ticket 
to an adult traveling with a child under the age of 
13, shall offer the opportunity to request seating in 
the child safe viewing area. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section, 
the following definitions apply: 
‘‘(1) CHILD SAFE VIEWING AREA.—The term 
‘child safe viewing area’ means an area on an air-
craft operated by a covered air carrier in which 
there are no publicly viewable entertainment screens 
displaying violent in-flight programming located 
within 10 rows of seating of such area. 
‘‘(2) COVERED AIR CARRIER.—The term ‘cov-
ered air carrier’ means an air carrier that provides 
scheduled passenger interstate air transportation or 
scheduled passenger intrastate air transportation. 
‘‘(3) PUBLICLY
VIEWABLE
ENTERTAINMENT 
SCREEN.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘publicly 
viewable entertainment screen’ means a video 
screen prominently located in the passenger 
compartment of an aircraft and viewable by 
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more than 3 passengers, including all screens 
located in the aisles and on bulkhead walls. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The term ‘publicly 
viewable entertainment screen’ does not include 
a personal video screen located on the back of 
a seat or a stowable screen intended for single- 
passenger use. 
‘‘(4) VIOLENT IN-FLIGHT PROGRAMMING.—The 
term ‘violent in-flight programming’ means— 
‘‘(A) motion pictures that were either not 
rated by the Motion Picture Association of 
America (MPAA) or were rated PG–13, R, or 
NC–17 by the MPAA; or 
‘‘(B) video programming that, when origi-
nally distributed for transmission through 
broadcast, a cable system, or satellite carrier, 
was not rated or was rated TV–PG–V, TV–13– 
V, TV–14–V, TV–MA–V, or otherwise rated as 
a program that parents may find unsuitable for 
younger children on the basis of violence.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis for 
chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end of the items relating to subchapter 
I the following: 
‘‘41724. Child safe viewing area.’’. 
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SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by section 3 shall take effect 
on January 1, 2008. 
Æ 
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