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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2431 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit mass layoffs of employees 
of the Federal Aviation Administration within 1 year of a major aviation 
accident, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2025 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit mass layoffs 
of employees of the Federal Aviation Administration 
within 1 year of a major aviation accident, 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 ‘‘Don’t Cut FAA Work-
ers Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON MASS LAYOFFS IN EVENT OF 
MAJOR AVIATION ACCIDENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 401 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 40133. Limitation on mass layoffs in event of major 
aviation accident. 
‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON MASS LAYOFFS.—Except as 
provided in subparagraph (b), the Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration may not carry out, or 
otherwise facilitate, a mass layoff during the 1-year period 
following a major aviation accident in air transportation. 
‘‘(b) CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR MASS LAY-
OFF.— 
‘‘(1) NOTIFICATION.—Before carrying out a 
mass layoff described in subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator shall submit to Congress notification of such 
a layoff that includes the number and type of em-
ployees proposed to be laid off. 
‘‘(2) CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.—In any case 
in which, not later than 60 days after receipt of a 
notification under paragraph (1), Congress enacts a 
joint resolution approving the proposed mass layoff 
for which such notification was submitted, the Ad-
ministrator may carry out such mass layoff. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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‘‘(1) MASS
LAYOFF.—The term ‘mass layoff’ 
means a reduction in force or other termination of 
employment that results in a personnel loss during 
any 90-day period— 
‘‘(A) of 10 or more employees of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration at a single site of 
employment, as calculated under paragraph (2); 
or 
‘‘(B) of 250 or more employees of the Ad-
ministration, irrespective of employment site. 
‘‘(2) CALCULATION.—The number of employees 
at a single site of employment who suffer an employ-
ment loss shall be calculated in a manner that in-
cludes— 
‘‘(A) all such employees who work at the 
physical location of the site; and 
‘‘(B) all such employees who work remotely 
and— 
‘‘(i) are assigned to or otherwise asso-
ciated with the site; 
‘‘(ii) receive assignments or training 
from the site; 
‘‘(iii) report to a manager associated 
with the site; or 
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‘‘(iv) whose job loss was a foreseeable 
consequence of a reduction in force or 
other termination of employment at the 
site. 
‘‘(3) MAJOR
AVIATION
ACCIDENT.—The term 
‘‘major aviation accident’’ means an aircraft acci-
dent in which a fatal aviation injury occurs. 
‘‘(4) AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT.—The term ‘aircraft 
accident’ means an occurrence associated with the 
operation of a civil aircraft that takes place between 
the time any individual boards the aircraft with the 
intention of flight and the time at which the last in-
dividual disembarks such aircraft in which any indi-
vidual suffers death or serious injury, or in which 
the aircraft receives substantial damage. 
‘‘(5) FATAL AVIATION INJURY.—The term ‘fatal 
aviation injury’ means any injury due to an aircraft 
accident that results in the death of an individual as 
a result of such accident within 30 days of such ac-
cident.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-
ter 401 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘40133. Limitation on reduction in force.’’. 
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