Title: Rebuilding America’s Airport Infrastructure Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Rebuilding America's Airport Infrastructure Act
This bill increases the cap on the airport passenger facility charge program of the Federal Aviation Administration. The program allows certain agencies to impose a passenger facility charge on each paying passenger of an air carrier or foreign air carrier boarding an aircraft at an airport the agency controls to finance an eligible airport-related project.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2719 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2719

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to make modifications to the 
passenger facility charge program administered by the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2021

 Mr. Blumenauer (for himself and Mr. Amodei) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to make modifications to the 
passenger facility charge program administered by the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, 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 ``Rebuilding America's Airport 
Infrastructure Act''.

SEC. 2. PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGE.

    (a) In General.--Section 40117 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ``of $1, $2, or 
                $3'' and inserting ``described in paragraph (4)'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(4) Passenger facility charge amount.--The maximum amount 
        of a passenger facility charge imposed under paragraph (1) 
        shall be--
                    ``(A) for a 1-year period beginning on January 1, 
                2023, $5.50;
                    ``(B) for a 1-year period beginning on January 1, 
                2024, $6.50;
                    ``(C) for a 1-year period beginning on January 1, 
                2025, $7.50; and
                    ``(D) on and after January 1, 2026, $8.50 (adjusted 
                annually for inflation).'';
                    (C) in paragraph (6)--
                            (i) by striking ``paragraphs (1) and (4)'' 
                        and inserting ``paragraph (1)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``or (4)''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (7)(A)--
                            (i) by striking ``, (4),''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``or (4)''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(C) by striking the semicolon 
                and inserting ``; and'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3) by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (4).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to passenger facility charges imposed on or after 
January 1, 2023.
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