As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 18, 2024
H.R. 9135, Ensuring Airline Resiliency to Reduce Delays and Cancellations ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 18, 2024 | |||||||||||
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By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars | 2025 | 2025-2029 | 2025-2034 | ||||||||
Direct Spending (Outlays) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Revenues | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Spending Subject to Appropriation (Outlays) | * | 1 | not estimated | ||||||||
Increases net direct spending in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035? | No | Statutory pay-as-you-go procedures apply? | No | ||||||||
Mandate Effects | |||||||||||
Increases on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035? | No | Contains intergovernmental mandate? | No | ||||||||
Contains private-sector mandate? | Yes, Under Threshold | ||||||||||
* = between zero and $500,000. | |||||||||||
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H.R. 9135 would require passenger air carriers to develop and regularly update a strategy to prevent or limit the effects of severe weather and other anticipated disruptions on passengers. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to develop a method to protect the confidentiality of trade secrets or proprietary information in those strategies. In addition, H.R. 9135 would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and report its findings to the Congress.
Based on the cost of similar activities, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would cost $1 million over the 2025-2029 period. Any related spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
The legislation would impose a private-sector mandate as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) by requiring passenger air carriers to develop those strategies. This would marginally expand existing requirements on air carriers to plan for, and respond to, certain disruptions in service. CBO expects that because carriers would build on existing operational policies for responding to those events, the cost of compliance would fall well below the threshold established in UMRA for private-sector mandates ($200 million in 2024, adjusted annually for inflation).
H.R. 9135 would not impose intergovernmental mandates as defined in UMRA.
The CBO staff contacts for this estimate are Ian Shayne (for federal costs) and Brandon Lever (for mandates). The estimate was reviewed by Emily Stern, Senior Adviser for Budget Analysis.
Phillip L. Swagel
Director, Congressional Budget Office