New law requires planes to have crash-avoidance technology after airport collision.
H.R. 7613 — ALERT Act · Filed by Sam Graves (R-MO) · 87 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 20, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
A plane crash near Reagan National Airport on January 29, 2025 killed 67 people. This bill requires all aircraft to have crash-avoidance systems. It also requires air traffic controllers to get new training. The bill makes sure the FAA follows 50 safety rules from the crash investigation.
Who it affects
Passengers and pilots will fly on safer planes with new systems. Airlines and plane owners must buy and install the technology. Air traffic controllers must learn new safety rules.
One thing to notice
The bill requires 50 safety rules but does not give the FAA extra money. The FAA must pay for these changes with its current budget.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
87 cosponsors: 50 Republicans, 37 Democrats.
- Feb 20, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 20, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed…”
- Mar 26, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Mar 26, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 53 - 0”
- Apr 14, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required)…”
- Apr 14, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Graves moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
77 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 77 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $25,751,651 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 7 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 99% of bills with any report.
Sam Graves, who sponsored the bill, received $882,513 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Rtx Corporation and Affiliates — $3,860,000 in 1 report
- Fedex Corporation — $2,930,000 in 1 report
- Boeing Company — $2,770,000 in 1 report
- American Honda Motor Co., Inc. — $1,477,000 in 1 report
- Delta Air Lines Inc — $1,460,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- crash-avoidance systems — Technology that warns pilots when another plane is too close and helps them avoid a crash.
- FAA — The Federal Aviation Administration, the government agency that makes rules for flying.
- safety rules — Requirements that must be followed to keep people safe during flight.
- 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 (50,094 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 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 Mar 2026 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 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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