Title: Transportation Workforce Recovery and Retention Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transportation Workforce Recovery and Retention Act
This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to continue to prioritize and support the Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) program for flight crewmembers and the Flight Attendant Drug and Alcohol Program (FADAP) for flight attendants.
The Transportation Research Board shall conduct a study on the HIMS program and the FADAP and make recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation on how to implement similar programs to help other types of transportation workers get treatment for drug and alcohol abuse and return to work.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2935 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2935

   To prioritize and support the Human Intervention Motivation Study 
(HIMS) program for flight crewmembers and the Flight Attendant Drug and 
 Alcohol Program (FADAP) for flight attendants, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2018

 Mrs. Shaheen 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 prioritize and support the Human Intervention Motivation Study 
(HIMS) program for flight crewmembers and the Flight Attendant Drug and 
 Alcohol Program (FADAP) for flight attendants, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation Workforce Recovery 
and Retention Act''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITIZING AND SUPPORTING THE HUMAN INTERVENTION MOTIVATION 
              STUDY (HIMS) PROGRAM AND THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT DRUG AND 
              ALCOHOL PROGRAM (FADAP).

    (a) In General.--The Federal Aviation Administration shall continue 
to prioritize and support the Human Intervention Motivation Study 
(HIMS) program for flight crewmembers and the Flight Attendant Drug and 
Alcohol Program (FADAP) for flight attendants.
    (b) Study and Recommendations.--
            (1) In general.--The Executive Director of the 
        Transportation Research Board shall--
                    (A) conduct a study on the Human Intervention 
                Motivation Study (HIMS) program and the Flight 
                Attendant Drug and Alcohol Program (FADAP); and
                    (B) make recommendations to the Federal Aviation 
                Administration and other administrations within the 
                Department of Transportation on how to implement 
                similar programs that seek to help other types of 
                transportation workers get treatment for drug and 
                alcohol abuse and return to work.
            (2) Requirement.--In conducting the study under paragraph 
        (1), the Executive Director shall identify--
                    (A) best policies and practices within existing 
                programs, like the Human Intervention Motivation Study 
                program and the Flight Attendant Drug and Alcohol 
                Program, for application to employees who work in other 
                modes of transportation; and
                    (B) best prevention, early intervention, and return 
                to work practices specifically around prescription 
                medication abuse, with a special emphasis on employee 
                use of opioids.
    (c) Funding.--There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019 and 
each subsequent fiscal year.
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