Ban cell phone calls on planes within 180 days
H.R. 9530 — Quiet Skies Act · Filed by Hillary Scholten (D-MI) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 29, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Transportation to write rules. The rules must stop passengers from making voice calls on cell phones during flights. Rules must be done in 180 days. The bill enforces a law that already exists. Airlines will have to follow the new rules.
Who it affects
Airline passengers will have quieter flights with no cell phone calls. Airlines must enforce the new rules.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say what happens if someone breaks the rule. The bill does not say how airlines will stop calls.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Jun 29, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 29, 2026 — 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
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $65,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 7 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Hillary Scholten, who sponsored the bill, received $728,440 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Global Business Travel Association — $65,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of Transportation — The government official who runs the Department of Transportation.
- voice calls — Phone calls where people talk to each other.
- 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 (345 characters) on Aug 12, 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 Jun 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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