112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3542 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 

(Transportation Security Administration) to modify 

screening requirements for checked baggage arriving 

from preclearance airports, 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, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No-Hassle Flying Act 

3 of 2012’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 44901(d) of title 49, 

6 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

7 following new paragraph: 

8 ‘‘(4) PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.— 

9 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For a flight or flight 

10 segment originating at an airport outside the 

11 United States and traveling to the United 

12 States with respect to which checked baggage 

13 has been screened in accordance with an avia14 tion security preclearance agreement between 

15 the United States and the country in which 

16 such airport is located, the Assistant Secretary 

17 (Transportation Security Administration) may, 

18 in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border 

19 Protection, determine whether such baggage 

20 must be re-screened in the United States by an 

21 explosives detection system before such baggage 

22 continues on any additional flight or flight seg23 ment. 

24 ‘‘(B) AVIATION SECURITY PRECLEARANCE

25 AGREEMENT DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the 

26 term ‘aviation security preclearance agreement’ 
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1 means an agreement that delineates and imple2 ments security standards and protocols that are 

3 determined by the Assistant Secretary, in co4 ordination with U.S. Customs and Border Pro5 tection, to be comparable to those of the United 

6 States and therefore sufficiently effective to en7 able passengers to deplane into sterile areas of 

8 airports in the United States. 

9 ‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Assistant Secretary 

10 shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 

11 Security of the House of Representatives, the 

12 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans13 portation of the Senate, and the Committee on 

14 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

15 of the Senate an annual report on the re16 screening of baggage under this paragraph. 

17 Each such report shall include the following for 

18 the year covered by the report: 

19 ‘‘(i) A list of airports outside the 

20 United States from which a flight or flight 

21 segment traveled to the United States for 

22 which the Assistant Secretary determined, 

23 in accordance with the authority under 

24 subparagraph (A), that checked baggage 

25 was not required to be re-screened in the 
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1 United States by an explosive detection 

2 system before such baggage continued on 

3 an additional flight or flight segment. 

4 ‘‘(ii) The amount of Federal savings 

5 generated from the exercise of such au6 thority.’’. 

7 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 44901 of 

8 title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘ex9 plosive’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘explosives’’. 

Passed the Senate November 29, 2012. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3542 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland 

ports, and for other purposes. checked baggage arriving from preclearance airtion) to modify screening requirements for Security (Transportation Security Administra-