FAA Reauthorization

President Obama signed the FAA authorization bill into law on February 14, 2012. On Friday, February 3, the full House voted 248 to 169 to pass the final FAA Conference Report to accompany, HR 658, the four-year authorization bill.  On Monday, February 6, the full Senate passed the bill by a vote of 75 to 20.    

• 112th Congress House-Passed Multi-Year FAA Authorization Bill - HR 658
• House FAA Bill HR 658 Introduced 2/10/11

• 112th Congress - Senate-Passed Multi-Year FAA Reauthorization Bill, S. 223
• 111th Congress - US Senate-Passed Version of FAA Reauthorization Bill, HR 1586 [pdf 637kb]

• Text of Final FAA Conference Report as Approved by the Conferees on January 31, 2012
• Joint Explanatory Statement of Managers on Final FAA Conference Report
• House T&I Press Release and Summary of 2012 Final FAA Conference Report
• 111th Congress - Congressional Research Service Report for Congress - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization: An Overview of Legislative Action in the 111th Congress, April 13, 2010 [pdf 193kb]
• 111th Congress - FAA Reauthorization - Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP [pdf 297kb]
• 111th Congress - Key Provisions in House and Senate FAA Bills [pdf 19kb]