Bill Text: HI SCR160 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Airline Passenger Seats

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-07 - Referred to TRN, referral sheet 46 [SCR160 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-SCR160-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	160
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the secretary of transportation to establish minimum dimensions for passenger seats on aircraft.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the average legroom for airline passenger seats has shrunk from about thirty-five inches in the 1970s to nearly thirty-one inches today, with seat width narrowing from eighteen and one-half inches in the 1990s to about seventeen inches today; and

 

     WHEREAS, the federal government does not impose a minimum passenger seat size and the airline industry opposes any seat standard; and

 

     WHEREAS, the decrease in the size of airline passenger seats, coupled with the growing problem of obesity in America, may pose threats to the safety and health of passengers during situations such as an emergency evacuation; and

 

     WHEREAS, wider seat dimensions for commercial flights promote not only safety and health but comfort as well; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Secretary of Transportation is requested to establish minimum dimensions for passenger seats on aircraft operated by any air carrier in the provision of interstate air transportation or intrastate air transportation; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Secretary of Transportation and Hawaii's congressional delegation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Airline Passenger Seats