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One Hundred Twelfth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twelve 

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. 

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 ‘‘No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012’’. 

SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS. 

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

Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(4) PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For a flight or flight segment originating at an airport outside the United States and traveling 

to the United States with respect to which checked baggage 

has been screened in accordance with an aviation security 

preclearance agreement between the United States and 

the country in which such airport is located, the Assistant 

Secretary (Transportation Security Administration) may, 

in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 

determine whether such baggage must be re-screened in 

the United States by an explosives detection system before 

such baggage continues on any additional flight or flight 

segment. 

‘‘(B) AVIATION SECURITY PRECLEARANCE AGREEMENT

DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘aviation security 

preclearance agreement’ means an agreement that delineates and implements security standards and protocols that 

are determined by the Assistant Secretary, in coordination 

with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to be comparable 

to those of the United States and therefore sufficiently 

effective to enable passengers to deplane into sterile areas 

of airports in the United States. 

‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Assistant Secretary shall submit 

to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 

Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an 

annual report on the re-screening of baggage under this 

paragraph. Each such report shall include the following 

for the year covered by the report: 

‘‘(i) A list of airports outside the United States 

from which a flight or flight segment traveled to the 
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United States for which the Assistant Secretary determined, in accordance with the authority under 

subparagraph (A), that checked baggage was not 

required to be re-screened in the United States by 

an explosive detection system before such baggage 

continued on an additional flight or flight segment. 

‘‘(ii) The amount of Federal savings generated from 

the exercise of such authority.’’. 

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 44901 of title 49, 

United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘explosive’’ each place 

it appears and inserting ‘‘explosives’’. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.