Title: A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to require air carrier passengers with service animals to adhere to a standard of service animal behavior training.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to establish a standard of service animal behavior training that an individual with a disability shall adhere to in seeking accommodation involving a service animal from an air carrier, including any foreign air carrier, providing air transportation. Any individual who knowingly and willfully makes a false statement to obtain an accommodation involving a service animal from an air carrier is subject to specified criminal penalties.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2738 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2738

     To amend title 49, United States Code, to require air carrier 
  passengers with service animals to adhere to a standard of service 
                       animal behavior training.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 24, 2018

   Mr. Burr introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 49, United States Code, to require air carrier 
  passengers with service animals to adhere to a standard of service 
                       animal behavior training.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STANDARD OF SERVICE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR TRAINING FOR AIR CARRIER 
              PASSENGERS.

    Section 41705 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Service Animals.--
            ``(1) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection and any 
        regulations or guidance carrying out this subsection--
                    ``(A) the term `disability' has the meaning given 
                that term in section 3 of the Americans with 
                Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102), including 
                the meaning under that section as amended by the ADA 
                Amendments of 2008 (Public Law 110-325; 122 Stat. 
                3553); and
                    ``(B) the term `service animal' has the meaning 
                given that term under sections 36.104 and 36.302 of 
                title 28, Code of Federal Regulations.
            ``(2) False statements.--An individual who knowingly and 
        willfully makes a false statement for the purpose of seeking 
        accommodation involving an animal from an air carrier, 
        including (subject to section 40105(b)) any foreign air 
        carrier, providing air transportation that the animal is a 
        service animal trained to do work or perform tasks for the 
        benefit of an individual with a disability or that the animal's 
        training meets the standard of service animal behavior training 
        established under paragraph (3), may be punished in accordance 
        with section 1001 of title 18, United States Code.
            ``(3) Standard of service animal behavior training.--The 
        Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Attorney 
        General, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and representatives 
        of air carriers, including foreign air carriers, and private 
        industry, shall establish a standard of service animal behavior 
        training that an individual with a disability shall adhere to 
        in seeking accommodation involving a service animal from an air 
        carrier, including (subject to section 40105(b)) any foreign 
        air carrier, providing air transportation.''.
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