It was a day of anticipation and emotion for family members of Continental flight 3407 victims, as they waited for their flight safety legislation to pass in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Our Ryan Burgess has the latest on what's included in the bill.

  To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.

Then come back here and refresh the page.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Many of the family members of flight 3407 victims flew to Washington to sit in on this vote.

The key to getting this bill to reach the House and Senate floor was actually removing the long fought for safety requirements from the FAA Reauthorization bill that's been stalled in Congress and including it in a less controversial FAA extension bill that needed to be passed by August 1st.

The bill includes a minimum of 1,500 flight training hours for new pilots. Also, a requirement for pilots to receive stall recovery training. And a mandate for the FAA to put new fatigue and duty time rules into effect within one year.

"Now pilots on all of the commuter airlines will be forced to be trained. They'll have enough training hours. They'll be trained under difficult conditions that the pilots, as we learned on 3407 weren't and that's what led 50 people to die," said Senator Charles Schumer (D- NY).

When President Obama was in Buffalo in May, he met with some of the 3407 families and assured them when that bill reaches his desk he will sign it into law. That's expected to happen within the next few days.