Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday announced plans to introduce a bill that would change how military helicopters operate near crowded airports after the midair collision this year that left 67 dead.

The National Transportation Safety Board is set to launch a three-day fact-finding hearing this week on the deadly midair collision that occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January involving an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial airplane.

The day before those hearings began, Cruz unveiled a bill that would mandate “virtually all aircraft and helicopters … in controlled airspace to be equipped with” technology that allows air traffic controllers to monitor an aircraft in flight and would close a loophole that lets the Pentagon fly aircraft domestically without this technology.

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