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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4549 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4549

   To require the Transportation Security Administration to conduct 
    security screening at certain airports, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2016

 Mr. Walden (for himself, Mr. Hurd of Texas, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. DeFazio, 
 and Mr. Kilmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL

 
   To require the Transportation Security Administration to conduct 
    security screening at certain airports, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Treating Small Airports with 
Fairness Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. CONDUCT OF SECURITY SCREENING BY THE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY 
              ADMINISTRATION AT CERTAIN AIRPORTS.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration shall provide for security screening to be conducted by 
the Transportation Security Administration at, and provide all 
necessary staff and equipment to, any airport--
            (1) that lost commercial air service on or after January 1, 
        2013; and
            (2) the operator of which, following the loss described in 
        paragraph (1), submits to the Administrator--
                    (A) a request for security screening to be 
                conducted at such airport by the Transportation 
                Security Administration; and
                    (B) written confirmation of a commitment from a 
                commercial air carrier--
                            (i) that such air carrier intends to resume 
                        commercial air service at such airport; and
                            (ii) to resume such service not later than 
                        the date that is one year after the date of the 
                        submission of the request under subparagraph 
                        (A).
    (b) Deadline.--Subject to the one-year limitation described in 
subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii), the Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration shall ensure that the process of implementing 
security screening by the Transportation Security Administration at an 
airport described in subsection (a) is complete not later than the 
later of--
            (1) the date that is 90 days after the date on which the 
        operator of such airport submits to the Administrator a request 
        for such screening under paragraph (2)(A) of such subsection; 
        or
            (2) the date on which the commercial air carrier that is 
        the subject of such a request intends to resume commercial air 
        service at such airport.
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