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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3416 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that individuals seeking 

training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked against the 

terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are non-threats to 

aviation, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 29, 2015 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Homeland Security 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that 

individuals seeking training in the operation of certain 

aircraft be checked against the terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are non-threats to aviation, 

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 ‘‘Flight School Security 

5 Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS SEEKING 

2 FLIGHT TRAINING ARE CHECKED AGAINST 

3 THE TERRORIST WATCHLIST. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 44939 of title 49, United 

5 States Code, is amended— 

6 (1) in subsection (a)— 

7 (A) in the subsection heading by striking 

8 ‘‘WAITING PERIOD.—’’ and inserting ‘‘RE9 QUIREMENTS; WAITING PERIOD.—’’; 

10 (B) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 

11 subparagraphs (A) through (F) as clauses (i) 

12 through (vi), respectively, and moving such 

13 clauses two ems to the right; 

14 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 

15 (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, 

16 and moving such subparagraphs two ems to the 

17 right; 

18 (D) by striking ‘‘12,500 pounds’’ and in19 serting ‘‘12,500 pounds—’’; 

20 (E) by inserting before subparagraph (A), 

21 as redesignated by subparagraph (B) of this 

22 paragraph, a new paragraph (2); 

23 (F) by moving the text beginning with ‘‘to 

24 an alien’’ and all that follows through ‘‘only 

25 if—’’ to such new paragraph (2); 


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1 (G) by inserting before such new para2 graph (2) the following new paragraph (1): 

3 ‘‘(1) to an individual seeking such training who 

4 does not hold a valid airman’s certification issued by 

5 the Federal Aviation Administration only upon re6 ceipt of information from the Administrator of the 

7 Transportation Security Administration that— 

8 ‘‘(A) the individual has been checked 

9 against the terrorist watchlist to ascertain if the 

10 individual may pose a threat to aviation or na11 tional security or a threat of terrorism; and 

12 ‘‘(B) the Administrator has determined 

13 that the individual does not pose a threat that 

14 warrants denial of access to such training; 

15 and’’; and 

16 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub17 section: 

18 ‘‘(j) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than March 1 of 

19 each year, the Administrator of the Transportation Secu20 rity Administration shall submit to the Committee on 

21 Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 

22 the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

23 Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

24 Transportation of the Senate a report on the total number 

25 of individuals checked against the terrorist watchlist and 


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1 total number of individuals denied access to flight training 

2 during the calendar year preceding the year in which each 

3 such report is submitted, in accordance with this section.’’. 

4 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph (B) 

5 of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of section 44939 of title 

6 49, United States Code, as redesignated by subsection (a) 

7 of this section, is amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ 

8 and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’. 

9 (c) TECHNICAL CHANGES.—Subsections (a), (b), (c), 

10 (d), and (i) of section 44939 of title 49, United State 

11 Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘the Administrator of the 

12 Transportation Security Administration, on behalf of’’ be13 fore ‘‘the Secretary’’. 

14 (d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The amendments 

15 made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to an indi16 vidual seeking flight training on or after the date of the 

17 enactment of this Act. 

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