Originally Posted by rickair7777

This is the congressional bill.

The FAA has a draft rule which should be released soon which is supposed to have significant changes to duty/rest.

It's confusing but the are two separate processes occurring in parrallel, a bill in congress and an FAA regulatory rulemaking. The FAA kind of does their own thing, but congress can always override their rules with a law (which is what the 800 hour law would do).

I suspect that if the FAA blows off duty/rest, congress will legislate something instead. The FAA (and the airlines, and maybe evn us pilots) would rather the FAA do it than congress...too many details to screw up.