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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2431
To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit mass layoffs of employees
of the Federal Aviation Administration within 1 year of a major aviation
accident, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH27, 2025
Mr. G
OTTHEIMERintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to limit mass layoffs
of employees of the Federal Aviation Administration
within 1 year of a major aviation accident, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Don’t Cut FAA Work-4
ers Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON MASS LAYOFFS IN EVENT OF 1
MAJOR AVIATION ACCIDENT. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 401 of title 49, United 3
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-4
lowing: 5
‘‘§ 40133. Limitation on mass layoffs in event of major 6
aviation accident. 7
‘‘(a) L
IMITATION ONMASSLAYOFFS.—Except as 8
provided in subparagraph (b), the Administrator of the 9
Federal Aviation Administration may not carry out, or 10
otherwise facilitate, a mass layoff during the 1-year period 11
following a major aviation accident in air transportation. 12
‘‘(b) C
ONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR MASSLAY-13
OFF.— 14
‘‘(1) N
OTIFICATION.—Before carrying out a 15
mass layoff described in subsection (a), the Adminis-16
trator shall submit to Congress notification of such 17
a layoff that includes the number and type of em-18
ployees proposed to be laid off. 19
‘‘(2) C
ONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL .—In any case 20
in which, not later than 60 days after receipt of a 21
notification under paragraph (1), Congress enacts a 22
joint resolution approving the proposed mass layoff 23
for which such notification was submitted, the Ad-24
ministrator may carry out such mass layoff. 25
‘‘(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 26
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‘‘(1) MASS LAYOFF.—The term ‘mass layoff’ 1
means a reduction in force or other termination of 2
employment that results in a personnel loss during 3
any 90-day period— 4
‘‘(A) of 10 or more employees of the Fed-5
eral Aviation Administration at a single site of 6
employment, as calculated under paragraph (2); 7
or 8
‘‘(B) of 250 or more employees of the Ad-9
ministration, irrespective of employment site. 10
‘‘(2) C
ALCULATION.—The number of employees 11
at a single site of employment who suffer an employ-12
ment loss shall be calculated in a manner that in-13
cludes— 14
‘‘(A) all such employees who work at the 15
physical location of the site; and 16
‘‘(B) all such employees who work remotely 17
and— 18
‘‘(i) are assigned to or otherwise asso-19
ciated with the site; 20
‘‘(ii) receive assignments or training 21
from the site; 22
‘‘(iii) report to a manager associated 23
with the site; or 24
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‘‘(iv) whose job loss was a foreseeable 1
consequence of a reduction in force or 2
other termination of employment at the 3
site. 4
‘‘(3) M
AJOR AVIATION ACCIDENT .—The term 5
‘‘major aviation accident’’ means an aircraft acci-6
dent in which a fatal aviation injury occurs. 7
‘‘(4) A
IRCRAFT ACCIDENT.—The term ‘aircraft 8
accident’ means an occurrence associated with the 9
operation of a civil aircraft that takes place between 10
the time any individual boards the aircraft with the 11
intention of flight and the time at which the last in-12
dividual disembarks such aircraft in which any indi-13
vidual suffers death or serious injury, or in which 14
the aircraft receives substantial damage. 15
‘‘(5) F
ATAL AVIATION INJURY.—The term ‘fatal 16
aviation injury’ means any injury due to an aircraft 17
accident that results in the death of an individual as 18
a result of such accident within 30 days of such ac-19
cident.’’. 20
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-21
ter 401 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 22
adding at the end the following: 23
‘‘40133. Limitation on reduction in force.’’.
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