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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3963 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3963

        To provide specialized training to Federal air marshals.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 29, 2009

    Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California (for himself, Mr. Dent, Mr. 
  Bilirakis, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, and Mr. Carney) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL

 
        To provide specialized training to Federal air marshals.

    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 ``Criminal Investigative Training 
Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL AIR MARSHALS.

    Section 44917 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(e) Criminal Investigative Training Program.--
            ``(1) New employee training.--Not later than 30 days after 
        the date of enactment of the Criminal Investigative Training 
        Restoration Act, the Federal Air Marshal Service shall require 
        Federal air marshals hired after such date to complete the 
        criminal investigative training program at the Federal Law 
        Enforcement Training Center as part of basic training for 
        Federal air marshals.
            ``(2) Existing employees.--A Federal air marshal who has 
        previously completed the criminal investigative training 
        program shall not be required to repeat such program.
            ``(3) Alternative training.--Not later than 3 years after 
        the date of enactment of the Criminal Investigative Training 
        Restoration Act, an air marshal hired before such date who has 
        not completed the criminal investigative training program shall 
        be required to complete a alternative training program, as 
        determined by the Federal Law Enforcement Center, that provides 
        the training necessary to bridge the gap between the mixed 
        basic police training, the Federal air marshal programs already 
        completed by the Federal air marshal and the criminal 
        investigative training provided through the criminal 
        investigative training program. Any such alternative program 
        shall be deemed to have met the standards of the criminal 
        investigative training program.
            ``(4) Authorization of appropriations.--Not less than 
        $3,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal 
        years 2010 and 2011 to carry out this subsection.
            ``(5) Savings clause.--Nothing in this subsection shall be 
        construed to reclassify Federal air marshals as criminal 
        investigators.''.
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