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U.S. Senate Passes Bill To Ensure Government Support of Advanced Air Mobility
The Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act (S.516) would establish an interagency working group to more effectively engage the federal government in furthering the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector.
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Legislation passed by the Senate on Wednesday could potentially support plans such as those that call for Vertiport Chicago, which opened in 2015, to serve as a facility for eVTOL aircraft.

The U.S. Senate this week passed the Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act (S.516), which establishes an interagency working group to more effectively engage the federal government in supporting the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector.

The House of Representatives version of the legislation, the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization Act (H.R.6270), won passage in November last year and would direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a pilot program that would provide planning and construction grants to support AAM infrastructure development. With each chamber passing their respective versions of the bill, they can work to resolve the differences, or one chamber can elect to pass the other’s bill. Once that happens, the bill will go to President Biden to be signed into law.