Review - HR 3960 Introduced – Aviation Hydrogen Fuels

Last month, Rep DelBene introduced HR 3960, the Hydrogen Aviation Development Act. The bill amend existing statutes to provide administrative support for the development hydrogen as an aviation fuel. No funding is authorized in the legislation.

Moving Forward

DelBene is not a member of either the House Transportation and Infrastructure or the Science, Space, and Technology Committees to which this bill was referred for consideration. Generally, this means that there is not enough influence to see the bill considered in Committee. Were the bill to be considered, I suspect that there would be some level of bipartisan support for the bill since it contains no funding authorization and is generally permissive rather than prescriptive. I am not sure that there would be enough support for the bill for it to move to the floor of the House under the suspension of the rules process. There would not be sufficient leadership support to consider the bill under regular order.

 

For more details about the provisions of the bill, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-3960-introduced - subscription required.