FAA must publish its secret list of safe and banned pilot medicines.
H.R. 2592 — Aviation Medication Transparency Act of 2025 · Filed by Sean Casten (D-IL) · 25 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 2, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill tells the FAA to make a public list of medicines pilots can take. The list must show which medicines the FAA bans and why. The FAA must update the list every year and make it easy to read. Right now these rules only exist in secret FAA databases. Pilots and doctors cannot see them.
Who it affects
Pilots and their doctors will see the FAA's medicine rules for the first time. The bill does not ban any new medicines or make new rules.
One thing to notice
The bill only makes old, hidden rules public so pilots and doctors can see them.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
25 cosponsors: 17 Democrats, 8 Republicans.
- Apr 2, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 2, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
12 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 14 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $2,836,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 12 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 93% of bills with any report.
Sean Casten, who sponsored the bill, received $765,050 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- United Airlines Inc — $1,110,000 in 1 report
- Alaska Airlines Inc — $500,000 in 1 report
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association — $360,000 in 1 report
- Air Line Pilots Association — $266,000 in 1 report
- Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association — $240,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- FAA — The Federal Aviation Administration, the government agency that makes rules for flying.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,327 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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