Sec. 402. Cell phone voice communication ban
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Subchapter I of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary of Transportation shall issue regulations— to prohibit an individual on an aircraft from engaging in voice communications using a mobile communications device during a flight of that aircraft in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation; and that exempt from the prohibition described in paragraph
(1)any— member of the flight crew on duty on an aircraft; flight attendant on duty on an aircraft; and Federal law enforcement officer acting in an official capacity. In this section, the following definitions apply: The term flight means, with respect to an aircraft, the period beginning when the aircraft takes off and ending when the aircraft lands. The term mobile communications device means any portable wireless telecommunications equipment utilized for the transmission or reception of voice data. The term mobile communications device does not include a phone installed on an aircraft. . The analysis for chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 41724 the following: 41725. Prohibition on certain cell phone voice communications. .