S3258-119

In Committee

Aviation Medication Transparency Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Nov 20, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

Requires the FAA to publish and maintain a user-friendly public list of medications that are approved, disallowed, or otherwise relevant to aviation medical certification.

Who Benefits and How

Airmen, air traffic control specialists, trainees, and their doctors could get clearer guidance on which medications are compatible with FAA medical certification.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The FAA would have to build, maintain, update, and disseminate the medication list in consultation with multiple stakeholders.

Key Provisions

  • Requires the FAA to publish and maintain a publicly available medication list within one year.
  • Specifies consultation, usability, and content requirements for the list, including approved and do-not-issue medications.
  • Requires annual updates after initial publication.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

Requires the FAA to publish and maintain a user-friendly public list of medications that are approved, disallowed, or otherwise relevant to aviation medical certification.

Key Policy Areas

Transportation, Healthcare, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

Requires the FAA to publish and maintain a user-friendly public list of medications that are approved, disallowed, or otherwise relevant to aviation medical certification.

Policy Domains

Transportation Healthcare Government Operations

Main Provisions

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Airmen, air traffic control specialists, and trainees seeking medical certification
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: is

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • FAA administrators responsible for publishing and updating the list
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: is

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Nov 20, 2025

Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Durbin, and Mrs. …

Nov 20, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …

Nov 20, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Air Transport
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Airmen and trainees seeking FAA medical certification

Air Traffic Control
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Air traffic control specialists and trainees seeking FAA medical certification

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sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Transportation Healthcare Government Operations

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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