All eyes were on the Senate Judiciary Committee this past week, but amid the tumult another part of the Senate got an important bill from the House that they must deal with soon: FAA reauthorization.

Tucked into this bill is a measure that may make airline seats more comfortable.

The bill is expected to be rubber-stamped by the Senate next week before it reaches President Trump’s desk, and comes at the end of a long road for the its author, Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), who introduced the SEAT Act in 2016.

“Americans have become large; seats have become smaller,” Cohen said on the floor of the House recently. “There needs to be a study on the width and the pitch of seats to make sure they are safe to be evacuated.”

The SEAT Act eventually became an amendment in the FAA Reauthorization bill, which funds the FAA for five years, and aims to update standards for airplane evacuation testing, which had not been changed for the modern era.

An aircraft must be able to be evacuated in 90 seconds or less, according to regulations, but with shrinking legroom, many are doubtful this measure can be met. As aircraft have grown increasingly cramped, this provision will allow the FAA to set minimum pitch, width and length of seats to make sure passengers are safe in the event of an evacuation.

The bill didn’t go anywhere at first but was reintroduced in 2017, and offered as an amendment to the large FAA Reauthorization bill that funds the agency. At the time Cohen told Yahoo Finance that he was very concerned that Congress would only act after a tragedy, which could be preventable by adequate testing of the aircraft, and said the issue was about safety, not comfort.

As Cohen’s office noted in a recent statement, airlines chose not to oppose, given a “PR defensive” following the violent ejection of a passenger on a United flight. That likely sealed the bill’s ultimate success.

At the same time, the PETS Act, an acronym for “Planes Ensuring Total Safety,” was also included in the FAA legislation. The bipartisan PETS Act was written following the death of a French bulldog on a United flight after being stored in an overhead compartment. The measure will prohibit live animals from being held in overhead compartments.

Ethan Wolff-Mann is a writer at Yahoo Finance focusing on consumer issues, retail, personal finance, and more. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann.