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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3202 

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to prepare a comprehensive 

security assessment of the transportation security card program, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 

Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, and Mrs. MILLER of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Homeland Security 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to prepare 

a comprehensive security assessment of the transportation security card program, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Essential Transpor5 tation Worker Identification Credential Assessment Act’’. 

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1 SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY ASSESSMENT OF THE 

2 TRANSPORTATION SECURITY CARD PRO3 GRAM. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 

5 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 

6 Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Se7 curity of the House of Representatives, the Committee on 

8 Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, 

9 and the Comptroller General of the United States a com10 prehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the transpor11 tation security card program under section 70105 of title 

12 46, United States Code, at enhancing security or reducing 

13 security risks for facilities and vessels regulated pursuant 

14 to section 102 of Public Law 107–295, as conducted by 

15 an independent not-for-profit laboratory with appropriate 

16 expertise. 

17 (b) CONTENTS.—The comprehensive assessment 

18 shall include— 

19 (1) an evaluation of the extent to which the 

20 program, as implemented, addresses known security 

21 risks in the maritime environment; 

22 (2) an evaluation of the extent to which internal 

23 control deficiencies identified by the Comptroller 

24 General have been addressed; and 

25 (3) a cost-benefit analysis of the program, as 

26 implemented, and a consideration of alternate biomstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with BILLS

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1 metric technologies that provide the same or greater 

2 security effectiveness, including— 

3 (A) technologies and programs, including 

4 the biometric entry and exit system required by 

5 section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and 

6 Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 

7 108–458; 8 U.S.C. 1365b); 

8 (B) technologies and programs operated by 

9 United States port facilities and vessels, par10 ticularly for purposes of access control to crit11 ical infrastructure; 

12 (C) international technologies and pro13 grams that are operational, particularly for pur14 poses of access control to critical infrastructure; 

15 and 

16 (D) new and emerging technologies. 

17 (c) CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN; PROGRAM RE18 FORMS.—Not later than 60 days after the Secretary sub19 mits the assessment under subsection (a), the Secretary 

20 shall issue a corrective action plan based on such assess21 ment that responds to the findings of the cost-benefit 

22 analysis under subsection (b)(2) and enhances security or 

23 reduces security risk for facilities and vessels referred to 

24 in subsection (a). The plan may include programmatic re25 forms, revisions to regulations, or proposals for legislation. 

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1 (d) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later 

2 than 120 days after the Secretary issues the corrective ac3 tion plan under subsection (c), the Comptroller General 

4 shall— 

5 (1) review the extent to which the submissions 

6 implement recommendations issued by the Comp7 troller General; and 

8 (2) inform the Committee on Homeland Secu9 rity of the House of Representatives and the Com10 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 

11 the Senate as to the responsiveness of the submis12 sion. 

13 (e) TRANSPORTATION SECURITY CARD READER

14 RULE.—The Secretary of Homeland Security may not 

15 issue a final rule requiring the use of transportation secu16 rity card readers until— 

17 (1) the Comptroller General informs the Com18 mittees on Homeland Security of the House of Rep19 resentatives and Commerce, Science and Transpor20 tation of the Senate that the submission under sub21 section (a) is substantially responsive to the rec22 ommendations of the Comptroller General; and 

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1 (2) the Secretary issues an updated list of 

2 transportation security card readers that are com3 patible with active transportation security cards. 

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