Direct the FAA to evaluate and implement improvements to advanced collision-avoidance technology on commercial aircraft.

Upgrade Aircraft Collision Warning Systems Direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate and implement improvements to advanced collision-avoidance technology on commercial aircraft.

The ALERT Act would require FAA action to improve collision-warning systems on commercial aircraft.

PASSED: U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ (D-KS-03) Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Aviation Safety Passes U.S. House | Representative Sharice Davids
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.4-mini

Establish a timeline for deploying updated systems that provide earlier and clearer warnings to pilots.

The bill sets a deployment timeline for updated aircraft warning systems.

PASSED: U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ (D-KS-03) Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Aviation Safety Passes U.S. House | Representative Sharice Davids
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.4-mini

Section 347 requires the FAA Administrator to establish a process to continuously track and evaluate ground and air traffic activity and related incidents at airports, and to create a Runway Safety Council to develop strategies for airport surface safety risks.

The enacted law directs FAA evaluation and safety-management work tied to near misses, runway incursions, and surface safety risks.

partial same_term

Public Law 118-63, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Section 347
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

The law requires FAA, within 6 months, to consult stakeholders and identify technologies, equipment, systems, and process changes that may improve onboard situational awareness for flight crews, including aircraft technologies that reduce runway collision risk, calculate safe landing distances, and prompt safe-stop actions.

This directly addresses evaluation of aircraft-based safety technology relevant to collision avoidance, but it is focused on runway/surface risk rather than all commercial-aircraft collision avoidance.

partial same_term

Public Law 118-63, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Section 347
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

The law requires FAA, within 1 year, to identify safety technologies and systems in transport airplanes that meet FAA standards and would enhance runway safety or augment onboard runway traffic alerting and runway landing safety technologies. It also requires deployment of airport surface detection and surveillance systems within 5 years at specified airports.

The law creates FAA deadlines for identifying commercial transport-airplane safety technologies and implementing airport surface surveillance improvements, though it does not clearly mandate installing new onboard systems on commercial aircraft.

partial same_term

Public Law 118-63, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Section 347
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

Congress.gov lists H.R.3935 as becoming Public Law No. 118-63 on May 16, 2024, after passing the House, passing the Senate, resolving differences, and being presented to the President.

The statutory directive was enacted into law during Davids's federal service, establishing that the relevant FAA requirements were legally adopted.

partial same_term

H.R.3935 - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

The House Clerk records Roll Call 364 on H.R.3935 as passed, 351-69. Representative Davids (KS), Democrat, is listed as voting Yea.

Davids voted for the House-passed FAA reauthorization bill that later became Public Law 118-63, showing concrete legislative support for the measure containing the FAA safety-technology directive.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 364, H.R.3935
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%