ment and emerging technologies that enhance com-
puter network resiliency. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—Membership on the working 
group shall include representatives who have responsibility 
for computer networks and their maintenance, including— 
(1) at a minimum, Government representatives 
of the Federal Aviation Administration and the De-
partment of Homeland Security; and 
(2) voluntary participation of representatives 
from the airline industry and their contractors and 
suppliers. 
(d) MEETINGS.—The working group shall meet not 
less than twice each year and may convene for additional 
meetings as needed. The group shall meet for a period 
of not less than 2 years. 
(e) REPORT.—The working group shall submit a re-
port to the Secretary of Transportation that establishes 
voluntary guidelines for the resiliency of airline computer 
networks that handle operationally critical functions, best 
practices, and the conditions under which the working 
group may need to periodically meet or reconvene. 
SEC. 6. IMPROVED ACCOMMODATION OF DISPLACED PAS-
SENGERS. 
Not later than 1 year after the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Transportation shall modify part 259 of 
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title 14, Code of Federal Regulations to include the fol-
lowing: 
(1) ADOPTION OF PLAN.—Each covered carrier 
shall adopt a contingency plan for lengthy terminal 
delays for its scheduled flights at each large hub air-
port, medium hub airport, small hub airport and 
non-hub airport in the United States at which it op-
erates or markets such air transportation service 
and shall adhere to its plan’s terms. 
(2) CONTENTS
OF
PLAN.—Each contingency 
plan for any delay, cancellation, or misconnection, 
affecting a passenger who has been involuntarily de-
nied boarding as a result of circumstances or an 
event within an air carrier’s control, as determined 
by the Administration of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration (except in the case in which the flight 
crew determines that a passenger poses a danger to 
the safety of the flight), shall include, at a min-
imum, the following: 
(A) ESSENTIAL
NEEDS.—An air carrier 
shall ensure that essential needs, including 
food, water, restroom facilities, and assistance 
in the case of a medical emergency are met. If 
the only available seating on the carrier’s next 
flight to the passenger’s destination is a higher 
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class of service than purchased, the carrier shall 
transport the passenger on the flight at no ad-
ditional cost. 
(B) MEAL
VOUCHER.—In the case of a 
delay exceeding 4 hours, the air carrier shall 
provide a meal voucher or, if at the request of 
the passenger, cash equivalent to the value of a 
meal voucher. An air carrier shall not be liable 
to reimburse the passenger for expenses related 
to meals if the passenger did not accepted such 
compensation when offered. 
(C) 
LODGING, 
TRANSPORTATION, 
AND 
OTHER VOUCHERS.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—In the case of a 
delay, cancellation, or misconnection as a 
result of circumstances or an event within 
an air carrier’s control, as determined by 
the Secretary of Transportation, of which 
any portion exceeding 2 hours occurs be-
tween the period of time between 10 p.m. 
and 3 a.m., local time, of the following 
day, and with no guarantee of reaccommo-
dation aboard another flight to the pas-
senger’s destination within the following 2 
hours after the initial 2-hour delay, an air 
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carrier shall provide the passenger with 
lodging, transportation to and from the 
airport to the place of lodging, and meal 
expenses. At the request of the passenger, 
the carrier shall alternatively compensate 
such passenger with the cash equivalent to 
the value of the lodging, meals, and trans-
portation, or a voucher of equivalent value 
for future travel on the carrier. 
(ii) LODGING UNAVAILABLE.—If lodg-
ing is unavailable, an carrier shall com-
pensate a passenger with the cash equiva-
lent to the value of the lodging, meals, and 
transportation, or, at the request of the 
passenger, a voucher of equivalent value 
for future travel on the carrier. 
(iii) PROXIMITY TO RESIDENCE.—The 
provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) shall not 
apply to a passenger whose permanent res-
idence is 60 miles or less from the airport 
where such delay, cancellation, or miscon-
nection occurred. 
(iv) FAILURE
TO
ACCEPT
INITIAL 
COMPENSATION.—An air carrier shall not 
be liable to reimburse the passenger for ex-
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penses related to meals if the passenger 
did not accept such compensation when of-
fered. 
SEC. 7. AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS WITHOUT FUNCTIONING LAVA-
TORIES. 
(a) LIMITATION ON CERTAIN AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS.— 
Chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code is amended 
by adding the following: 
‘‘§ 41725. Limitation on aircraft flights without func-
tioning lavatories 
‘‘Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall issue regula-
tions to ensure that a passenger who has purchased a tick-
et in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air 
transportation or in an aircraft in nonscheduled passenger 
interstate or intrastate air transportation, shall not pay 
any associated fee to select an alternative flight if it is 
determined before departure that the lavatory is not func-
tioning.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for such 
chapter is amended by adding at the end of the following: 
‘‘41725. Limitation on aircraft flights without functioning lavatories’’. 
Æ 
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