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H.R.3939 / 110th Congress

To increase the safety for crew and passengers on an aircraft providing emergency medical services.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 23, 2007

Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services to comply with federal crewmember flight time and duty period and rest requirements whenever there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) require pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to use a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors to determine whether a mission should be accepted; (2) establish performance based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots; and (3) require, after a certain feasibility study is done, flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board such aircraft.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4] · R–CA

Committees

  • Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
3 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

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  1. Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

  3. Introduced in House

  4. Introduced in House

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