Sec. 9. Liability protection for volunteer pilots that fly for the public benefit
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Congress finds the following: Many volunteer pilot nonprofit organizations fly for public benefit and provide valuable services to communities and individuals. In each calendar year, volunteer pilot nonprofit organizations provide long-distance, no-cost transportation for tens of thousands of people during times of special need. Such nonprofit organizations are no longer able to purchase liability insurance for aircraft they do not own to provide liability protection at a reasonable price, and therefore face a highly detrimental liability risk.
Such nonprofit organizations have supported the homeland security of the United States by providing volunteer pilot services during times of national emergency. The purpose of this section is to promote the activities of volunteer pilot nonprofit organizations that fly for public benefit and to sustain the availability of the services that such nonprofit organizations provide, including the following: Transportation at no cost to financially needy medical patients for medical treatment, evaluation, and diagnosis.
Flights for humanitarian and charitable purposes. Other flights of compassion. Section 4 of the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 ( 42 U.S.C. 14503 ) is amended— in subsection (a)(4)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively; by striking the harm and inserting
(A)except in the case of subparagraph (B), the harm ; in subparagraph (A)(ii), as redesignated by this paragraph, by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: the volunteer— was operating an aircraft in furtherance of the purpose of a volunteer pilot nonprofit organization that flies for public benefit; and was properly licensed and insured for the operation of such aircraft. ; and in subsection (c)— by striking Nothing in this section and inserting the following: Except as provided in paragraph (2), nothing in this section ; and by adding at the end the following: A volunteer pilot nonprofit organization that flies for public benefit, the staff, mission coordinators, officers, and directors (whether volunteer or otherwise) of that nonprofit organization, and a referring agency of that nonprofit organization shall not be liable for harm caused to any person by a volunteer of the nonprofit organization while the volunteer— is operating an aircraft in furtherance of the purpose of the nonprofit organization; is properly licensed for the operation of the aircraft; and has certified to the nonprofit organization that the volunteer has insurance covering the volunteer's operation of the aircraft. .
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Liability protection for volunteer pilots that fly for the public benefit
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