Official Summaries

This bill exempts Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands from specific eligibility requirements of the Essential Air Service (EAS) program, thus allowing certain communities in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands to participate. As background, the Department of Transportation's EAS program subsidizes passenger airline service to eligible small and isolated communities.

To participate in the program under current law, most places must meet the eligibility requirements, such as be a community that received EAS in FY2011. Alaska and Hawaii are generally exempt from most of the EAS eligibility requirements. This bill adds Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands to that exemption.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2216 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2216

     To amend title 49, United States Code, to except from certain 
requirements relating to eligibility for essential air service Guam and 
         the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

 Mr. Moylan (for himself and Ms. King-Hinds) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 49, United States Code, to except from certain 
requirements relating to eligibility for essential air service Guam and 
         the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN LOCATIONS.

    Section 41731(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading by striking ``Alaska and 
        Hawaii'' and inserting ``Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern 
        Mariana Islands''; and
            (2) by striking ``State of Alaska or the State of Hawaii'' 
        and inserting ``State of Alaska, the State of Hawaii, the 
        territory of Guam, or the territory of the Northern Mariana 
        Islands''. 
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