Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- House
- Latest action
- Mar 25, 2026
What it does
Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025 This bill reduces the requirements for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to allow a state to use its state highway standards, instead of federal standards, for airfield pavement projects at certain smaller commercial aviation airports. The bill also requires the FAA to act within a certain time period. Under current law, airports are generally required to meet FAA standards for Airport Improvement Program-funded construction. For certain nonprimary commercial service airports (i.e., airports that have 2,500 to 10,000 passenger boardings annually) that serve aircraft that do not exceed 60,000 pounds gross weight, the FAA must instead use the…
Official summary · Reported to House · Mar 16, 2026
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