Title: Saracini Aviation Safety Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Saracini Aviation Safety Act of 2017
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order to require: (1) the installation of secondary barriers, other than the cockpit door, to prevent access to the flight deck of each covered aircraft; (2) such barriers on the aircraft with a cockpit door to remain locked while the aircraft is in flight and the cockpit door separating the flight deck and the passenger area is open; and (3) such barriers on the aircraft without a cockpit door to remain locked as determined by the pilot in command.
"Covered aircraft" is defined as a commercial aircraft: (1) equipped with more than 75 passenger seats, and (2) with a maximum gross takeoff weight of more than 75,000 pounds.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 911 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 911

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
  issue an order with respect to secondary cockpit barriers, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2017

 Mr. Casey (for himself and Mr. Toomey) 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 direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
  issue an order with respect to secondary cockpit barriers, 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 ``Saracini Aviation Safety Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. SECONDARY COCKPIT BARRIERS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall issue an order that requires--
            (1) on each covered aircraft the installation of a barrier, 
        other than the cockpit door, that prevents access to the flight 
        deck of the aircraft; and
            (2) for a covered aircraft--
                    (A) that is equipped with a cockpit door, that the 
                barrier required under paragraph (1) remain locked 
                while--
                            (i) the aircraft is in flight; and
                            (ii) the cockpit door separating the flight 
                        deck and the passenger area is open; and
                    (B) that is not equipped with a cockpit door, that 
                the barrier required under paragraph (1) remain locked 
                as determined appropriate by the pilot in command.
    (b) Covered Aircraft Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
aircraft'' means a commercial aircraft--
            (1) operating under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal 
        Regulations;
            (2) equipped with more than 75 passenger seats; and
            (3) with a maximum gross takeoff weight that exceeds 75,000 
        pounds.
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