Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act
Lets airports use federal grants to build storage facilities for aircraft deicing equipment.
Tradeoff
Expands what Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants can pay for, with no offset mentioned in the bill.
What's in it
Increases direct spending by less than $500,000 over the 2025-2035 period.
The $500,000 or less is just the federal cost to process and administer the expanded use of existing airport grant programs — the policy allows airports to redirect already-budgeted federal money toward deicing storage facilities instead of other airport improvements.
Passed the House by on September 8, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(May 15, 2025)
House
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure(May 15, 2025)
House
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted to send it to the floor
Reported by (Jun 11, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-237.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Sep 8, 2025)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation(Sep 9, 2025)
- Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI)
- Laura Gillen (D-NY)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY)