AB 1140 Passes CA Senate Committee
Assembly Bill 1140, authored by California Assemblyman Roger Niello, would provide for a delay in compliance for flight training facilities with the regulations issued by the California Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education and require the California Legislature to hold hearings to investigate the appropriateness of regulating flight training.
Yesterday, August 9th, the California Senate Business and Professions Committee voted 6 to 1 to pass AB 1140 out of committee. There were two attempts to amend AB 1140 prior to it leaving the committee, one to reduce the length of the delay from 18 months to 12 months and the other to double join AB 1140 with Assembly Bill 1889. Assemblyman Niello along with NATA’s lobbyist and NATA members testified in support of the bill. While the delay amendment offered by the committee was unwillingly taken, the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) proposed amendment to double join the bills was successfully defeated.
The effort to join AB 1140 and AB 1889 will continue and could threaten the future of AB 1140, as AB 1889 is expected to be vetoed due to matters not related to flight training.
AB 1140 will be heard this Thursday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. NATA will target its grassroots effort at key members of that committee to ensure that AB 1140 is passed and not double joined to AB 1889.
**AB 1140 Legislative Analysis**
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Michael France
Director, Regulatory Affairs
National Air Transportation Association
mfrance@nata.aero
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