Create expert working groups to modernize air traffic controller training standards.

Create expert working groups to modernize controller training standards.

The ALERT Act creates expert groups to update air traffic controller training.

PASSED: U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ (D-KS-03) Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Aviation Safety Passes U.S. House | Representative Sharice Davids
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Improve risk assessment tools to help controllers identify hazards in real time.

The bill would improve tools used by controllers to identify hazards quickly.

PASSED: U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ (D-KS-03) Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Aviation Safety Passes U.S. House | Representative Sharice Davids
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Congress.gov lists H.R.3935 as a law, sponsored by Rep. Sam Graves, with latest action on 05/16/2024: Became Public Law No: 118-63. The tracker shows House passage on 07/20/2023, Senate passage on 05/09/2024, presentation to the President on 05/16/2024, and becoming law on 05/16/2024.

The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 became law during Davids's later House service, so enacted statutory provisions can count toward fulfillment if they match the promise.

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H.R.3935 - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
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Section 406 says the Administrator shall use the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee Airman Certification System Working Group to review airman certification standards and ensure that proficiency and knowledge correspond to regulations, procedures, equipment, aviation infrastructure, and safety trends. It directs the working group to obtain industry recommendations on maintaining and updating airman certification standards, guidance documents, and airman tests.

The enacted law uses an expert FAA advisory working group to modernize airman certification standards. This closely matches the working-group and standards-modernization concept, but the text is about airman certification broadly, not specifically air traffic controller training standards.

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GovInfo - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Public Law 118-63 compilation
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Section 415, Improved Access to Air Traffic Control Simulation Training, directs the FAA Administrator to continue making tower simulator systems more accessible to air traffic controller specialists assigned to FAA air traffic control towers. It also requires a cloud-based visual database/software system, upgrades to permanent tower simulator systems, and mobile simulator systems for towers without permanent systems.

The law directly modernizes access to air traffic controller simulation training, but it does not create a working group for controller training standards.

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GovInfo - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Public Law 118-63 compilation
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Section 416 requires the FAA Administrator to initiate a study examining recruitment, hiring, and retention of air traffic controller instructors and the projected number of instructors needed over a five-year period beginning with fiscal year 2025. The study must examine instructor staffing targets, retired certified professional controllers as instructors, recommendations for using retired controllers, and training burdens on controller staffing levels.

The enacted law addresses the controller training pipeline and instructor capacity, but as a study rather than an expert working group to modernize controller training standards.

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GovInfo - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Public Law 118-63 compilation
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Section 417 requires the FAA Administrator to review and revise, if necessary, the Air Traffic Skills Assessment for air traffic controller applicants. It requires evaluating whether peer-reviewed job analysis of all questions would improve the air traffic control specialist workforce training and hiring process, assessing the assumptions and methodologies used, and assessing whether revisions are needed to enhance the training and hiring process.

The law requires review of the controller applicant assessment and its connection to workforce training and hiring, supporting partial progress toward modernized controller training-related standards.

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GovInfo - FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, Public Law 118-63 compilation
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The Clerk records Roll Call 200 on May 15, 2024 for H.R.3935, on the motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment. Status: Passed, 387 yeas to 26 nays. The vote listing shows Davids (KS), Democratic, Kansas, voted Yea.

Davids voted for the final House action sending the FAA reauthorization, including the relevant aviation workforce and air traffic controller training provisions, to enactment.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House - Roll Call 200, H.R.3935
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