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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3542 

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. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. BLUNT) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

5 of 2012’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS. 

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

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

4 following new paragraph: 

5 ‘‘(4) PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.— 

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

7 segment originating at an airport outside the 

8 United States and traveling to the United 

9 States with respect to which checked baggage 

10 has been screened in accordance with an avia11 tion security preclearance agreement between 

12 the United States and the country in which 

13 such airport is located, the Assistant Secretary 

14 (Transportation Security Administration) may, 

15 in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border 

16 Protection, determine whether such baggage 

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

18 explosives detection system before such baggage 

19 continues on any additional flight or flight seg20 ment. 

21 ‘‘(B) AVIATION SECURITY PRECLEARANCE

22 AGREEMENT DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the 

23 term ‘aviation security preclearance agreement’ 

24 means an agreement that delineates and imple25 ments security standards and protocols that are 

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1 ordination with U.S. Customs and Border Pro2 tection, to be comparable to those of the United 

3 States and therefore sufficiently effective to en4 able passengers to deplane into sterile areas of 

5 airports in the United States. 

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

7 shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 

8 Security of the House of Representatives and 

9 the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

10 Transportation of the Senate an annual report 

11 on the re-screening of baggage under this para12 graph. Each such report shall include the fol13 lowing for the year covered by the report: 

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

15 United States from which a flight or flight 

16 segment traveled to the United States for 

17 which the Assistant Secretary determined, 

18 in accordance with the authority under 

19 subparagraph (A), that checked baggage 

20 was not required to be re-screened in the 

21 United States by an explosive detection 

22 system before such baggage continued on 

23 an additional flight or flight segment. 


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1 ‘‘(ii) The amount of Federal savings 

2 generated from the exercise of such au3 thority.’’. 

4 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 44901 of 

5 title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘ex6 plosive’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘explosives’’. 

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