US HB7553

FAA Administrator must publish within 180 days a plan to improve the type certification process for aircraft, including better use of industry consensus standards and performance-based requirements for new aviation technologies

Within 270 days, FAA must establish standard expected timelines for major certification milestones, issue paper development, special condition rulemakings, and responses to applicant exemption petitions

FAA must update criteria within 180 days for determining when issues warrant formal issue papers, and must convert recurring issue papers into published policy or advisory circulars to reduce redundancy

Within 90 days, FAA must publish updated delegation guidance for type certification, including eligibility criteria for delegation and classification of routine versus safety-critical compliance findings

Annual reports to Congress required on FAA's performance meeting certification timelines, with explicit protection that timeline failures cannot be challenged in court