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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1045
To provide for funding from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for all
Federal Aviation Administration activities in the event of a Government
shutdown, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH13, 2025
Mr. M
ORANintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To provide for funding from the Airport and Airway Trust
Fund for all Federal Aviation Administration activities
in the event of a Government shutdown, 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 ‘‘Aviation Funding Sta-4
bility Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINIS-1
TRATION IN THE EVENT OF A LAPSE IN AP-2
PROPRIATION. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—If, with respect to the Federal 4
Aviation Administration, an appropriation measure for a 5
fiscal year is not enacted before the beginning of such fis-6
cal year or a joint resolution making continuing appropria-7
tions is not in effect, amounts in the Airport and Airway 8
Trust Fund not otherwise appropriated shall be available 9
to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administra-10
tion for continuing programs, projects, or activities (in-11
cluding the costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that 12
were conducted with amounts made available for the Fed-13
eral Aviation Administration, including for the accounts 14
‘‘Federal Aviation Administration—Operations’’, ‘‘Federal 15
Aviation Administration—Facilities and Equipment’’, 16
‘‘Federal Aviation Administration—Research, Engineer-17
ing, and Development’’, and ‘‘Federal Aviation Adminis-18
tration—Grants-in-Aid for Airports’’ in the preceding fis-19
cal year— 20
(1) in the corresponding appropriation Act for 21
such preceding fiscal year; or 22
(2) if the corresponding appropriation bill for 23
such preceding fiscal year did not become law, then 24
in a joint resolution making continuing appropria-25
tions for such preceding fiscal year. 26
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(b) RATE FOROPERATIONS.—Appropriations and 1
funds made available, and authority granted, for a pro-2
gram, project, or activity for any fiscal year pursuant to 3
this section shall be at a rate for operations not greater 4
than— 5
(1) the rate for operations provided for in the 6
regular appropriation Act providing for such pro-7
gram, project, or activity for the preceding fiscal 8
year; or 9
(2) in the absence of such an Act, the rate for 10
operations provided for such program, project, or ac-11
tivity pursuant to a joint resolution making con-12
tinuing appropriations for such preceding fiscal year. 13
(c) A
VAILABILITY.—Appropriations and funds made 14
available, and authority granted, for any fiscal year pursu-15
ant to this section for a program, project, or activity shall 16
be available for the period beginning with the first day 17
of a lapse in appropriations and ending with the date on 18
which the applicable regular appropriation bill for such fis-19
cal year becomes law (whether or not such law provides 20
for such program, project, or activity) or a joint resolution 21
making continuing appropriations becomes law, as the 22
case may be. 23
(d) T
ERMS ANDCONDITIONS.—An appropriation or 24
funds made available, or authority granted, for a program, 25
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project, or activity for any fiscal year pursuant to this sec-1
tion shall be subject to the terms and conditions imposed 2
with respect to the appropriation made or funds made 3
available for the preceding fiscal year, or authority grant-4
ed for such program, project, or activity under current 5
law. 6
(e) E
ND OFFISCALYEAR.—If this section is in effect 7
at the end of a fiscal year, funding levels shall continue 8
as provided in this section for the next fiscal year. 9
(f) E
XPENDITURES AND OBLIGATIONS.—Expendi-10
tures and obligations made for a program, project, or ac-11
tivity for any fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be 12
charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or author-13
ization whenever a regular appropriation bill or a joint res-14
olution making continuing appropriations until the end of 15
a fiscal year providing for such program, project, or activ-16
ity for such period becomes law. 17
(g) E
XPENDITURE AUTHORITY.—Section 18
9502(d)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 19
amended by striking the semicolon at the end and insert-20
ing ‘‘or the Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025;’’. 21
(h) T
ERMINATION.—This section shall not apply to 22
a program, project, or activity during any portion of a fis-23
cal year if any other provision of law (other than an au-24
thorization of appropriations)— 25
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(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds avail-1
able, or grants authority for such program, project, 2
or activity to continue for such period; or 3
(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 4
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 5
no authority shall be granted for such program, 6
project, or activity to continue for such period. 7
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