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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3318 

To require the Transportation Security Administration to establish a task 

force to conduct an analysis of emerging and potential future threats 

to transportation security, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 18, 2019 

Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. ROGERS of Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 

A BILL 

To require the Transportation Security Administration to 

establish a task force to conduct an analysis of emerging 

and potential future threats to transportation security, 

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 ‘‘Emerging Transpor5 tation Security Threats Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EMERGING AND FUTURE THREATS TASK FORCE. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 

8 date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 


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1 the Transportation Security Administration, in consulta2 tion with the Director of National Intelligence and the in3 telligence community (as such term is defined in section 

4 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 

5 3003(4))) and the heads of other Federal agencies, as de6 termined appropriate by the Administrator, shall establish 

7 a task force to conduct an analysis of emerging and poten8 tial future threats to transportation security. 

9 (b) ELEMENTS.—The analysis required under sub10 section (a) shall include emerging and potential future 

11 threats posed by the following: 

12 (1) Evolving tactics by terrorist organizations 

13 that may pose a catastrophic risk to an aviation or 

14 surface transportation entity. 

15 (2) Explosive and explosive devices or attacks 

16 involving the use of explosives that may cause cata17 strophic damage to an aviation or surface transpor18 tation system. 

19 (3) Chemical or biological agents being released 

20 in either aviation or surface transportation systems. 

21 (4) Cyberthreat actors seeking to undermine 

22 confidence in transportation systems or cause service 

23 disruptions that jeopardize transportation security. 

24 (5) Unmanned aerial systems with the capa25 bility of inflicting harm on transportation targets. 


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1 (6) Individuals or groups seeking to attack soft 

2 targets, public areas, or crowded spaces of transpor3 tation systems. 

4 (7) Inconsistent or inadequate security screen5 ing protocols at last point of departure airports with 

6 direct flights to the United States. 

7 (8) Information sharing challenges within the 

8 Federal Government and among partner govern9 ments. 

10 (9) Information sharing challenges between the 

11 Administration or other relevant Federal agencies 

12 and transportation stakeholders, including air car13 riers, airport operators, surface transportation oper14 ators, and State and local law enforcement. 

15 (10) Growth in passenger volume in both the 

16 aviation and surface transportation sectors. 

17 (c) MITIGATION.—Not later than 120 days after the 

18 completion of the analysis required under subsection (a), 

19 the Administrator of the Transportation Security Admin20 istration shall develop, as appropriate, a threat mitigation 

21 strategy for each of the threats examined in such analysis, 

22 and— 

23 (1) assign appropriate resources of the Admin24 istration to address such threats, based on cal25 culated risk; or 


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1 (2) provide recommendations through the De2 partment of Homeland Security to the appropriate 

3 Federal department or agency responsible for ad4 dressing such threats. 

5 (d) STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT.—When carrying 

6 out the analysis required under subsection (a), the Admin7 istrator of the Transportation Security Administration 

8 shall engage transportation stakeholders referred to in 

9 subsection (b)(9) and account for security concerns of 

10 transportation operators by— 

11 (1) convening not fewer than three industry day 

12 events for such transportation stakeholders to hear 

13 from relevant public and private sector security part14 ners and provide feedback on threats such transpor15 tation stakeholders identify as emerging; 

16 (2) developing strategies to solicit feedback on 

17 a consistent basis from such transportation stake18 holders across all modes of transportation and pro19 viding consistent responses to stakeholder concerns; 

20 (3) improving the quality and relevancy of in21 formation sharing products disseminated by the Ad22 ministration to such transportation stakeholders, in23 cluding classified information sharing products; 

24 (4) coordinating security incident response and 

25 communications drills, including tabletop exercises, 


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1 to improve incident preparedness and response capa2 bilities across transportation modes and among 

3 transportation systems; 

4 (5) encouraging regular communication between 

5 Federal Security Directors, Field Intelligence Offi6 cers, Federal Air Marshal Special Agents in Charge, 

7 and such transportation stakeholders; 

8 (6) establishing regular opportunities for senior 

9 Administration leadership to engage with such trans10 portation stakeholders regarding changes in the 

11 threat environment and how the Administration can 

12 offer security support to address such changes; and 

13 (7) briefing the Aviation Security Advisory 

14 Committee and the Surface Transportation Security 

15 Advisory Committee on the efforts of the task force 

16 established pursuant to subsection (a). 

17 (e) BRIEFING TO CONGRESS.—The Administrator of 

18 the Transportation Security Administration shall brief the 

19 Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Rep20 resentatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

21 and Transportation of the Senate on the results of the 

22 analysis required under subsection (a) and relevant miti23 gation strategies developed in accordance with subsection 

24 (c). 

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