1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Air Travel Public Health Emergency Protection Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Passenger air travel is or can be a major vector in the spread of certain communicable diseases such as COVID–19. (2) Air passengers who have been infected by such communicable diseases, especially during a declared national public health emergency, present a serious public health risk not only to their fellow passengers but to all who come in contact with them at their destinations and upon their return. (3) Further, such air passengers present a serious negative economic consequence to the airlines on which they fly and to the destinations at which they arrive, especially destinations reliant on the travel and tourism industry, as they destroy public confidence in the health and safety of air travel and of such destinations. (4) The best mechanism to address these negative consequences during a declared national public health emergency is for potential air passengers to be tested for symptoms of the relevant communicable disease before boarding airlines and to be denied boarding if such symptoms are indicated. (5) The Federal Aviation Administration has taken the position that it does not have existing statutory authority to impose a public health-related requirement on passenger airlines that they test all potential air passengers for symptoms of the relevant communicable disease before boarding airlines and deny boarding if such symptoms are indicated, and further that individual States are not authorized to impose such requirements in the exercise of their police power to protect the public health and foster economic and social stability. (6) As a result, some States, in furtherance of those goals, have been required to adopt far more risky and less effective methods which consume scarce resources, including a post-arrival self-policing quarantine which is widely disregarded. 3. Purpose The purpose of this Act shall be to authorize any State to impose reasonable