The record

LegislationLegislation· Mar 2026
HR 2247 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Tim Burchett (R)

Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act

Lets pilots show digital copies of airman and medical certificates to FAA inspectors.

Tradeoff

Pilots gain flexibility by using phones or cloud storage instead of carrying physical documents. The FAA must write new rules by November 2028 to set up security checks for digital copies.

What's in it

See official bill text

Costs $18 million over 2026-2031 for FAA software systems and to enable digital airman certificates.

This $18 million funds the Federal Aviation Administration's acquisition of new software systems to issue and maintain digital pilot certificates and the regulatory required to implement the program over six years.

H.R. 2247, Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act · Feb 2026

Passed the House by on March 24, 2026 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Mar 21, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure(Mar 21, 2025)

  3. House

    The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted to send it to the floor

    Reported by (Jan 21, 2026)

    Committee report H. Rept. 119-551.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Mar 24, 2026)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Commerce, Science, and Transportation(Mar 25, 2026)