House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Quiet Skies Act
Official title: To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to prohibit certain cell phone voice communications on aircraft in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation.
Sponsor: Rep. Hillary Scholten D-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 29, 2026
- Committee actionSep 15, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 15, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9530.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 9530, Quiet Skies Act” on October 13, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 15, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 13, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62851
- CBO publication date
- October 13, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9530, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9530
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 13, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SCHOLTEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 108, June 29, 2026, Page H4317):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9530, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9530
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 13, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
86701af1b703025d8d3393604d25694f57ff7b76f80e7495ae5055aa533b9a73
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 13, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
5 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 1 Democrat
4 of 5 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Greg Stanton (D-AZ).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.