A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the use of dogs at major airports for the purpose of detecting plastic explosives and other devices which may be used in aircraft piracy and which cannot be detected by metal detectors.

openUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

4 February 1987

Last action

—

Status

Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From Justice.

Summary

Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the operator of each airport regularly serving an air carrier to use dogs in screening passengers and cargo for the purpose of detecting plastic explosives and other materials which may be used in aircraft piracy and which cannot be detected by metal detectors.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

Introduced in House
summary · EN · 4 February 1987
Open at official source

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.

Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-bill/960
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/100/hr/960