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S. 3258119th CongressTransportation and Public Works
Aviation Medication Transparency Act of 2026
Sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) · 14 active : 3 Republicans, 11 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedSep 24, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govAviation Medication Transparency Act of 2025
This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to compile, publish, and annually update a list of medications that may be safely prescribed to pilots and air traffic controllers for the purposes of issuing a medical certification. The list must be publicly available on the FAA website and distributed to those seeking a license and medical certification.
Currently, the FAA does not have a list of approved medications. However, the FAA does have lists for Aviation Medical Examiners of
Do Not Issue
medications and
Do Not Fly
medications.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Aviation and airports
- Government information and archives
- Licensing and registrations
- Prescription drugs
- Transportation employees
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 54Middle 30–70
- 40Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
