In the Senate of the United States, 

August 1, 2013. 

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 1344) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend title 49, United 

States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland 

Security (Transportation Security Administration) to provide 

expedited air passenger screening to severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or 

disabled veterans, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the 

following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

following: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Heroes Fly 

3 Act’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. OPERATIONS CENTER PROGRAM FOR SEVERELY IN2 JURED OR DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE 

3 ARMED FORCES AND SEVERELY INJURED OR 

4 DISABLED VETERANS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 

6 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 

7 the following: 

8 ‘‘§ 44927. Expedited screening for severely injured or 

9 disabled members of the Armed Forces 

10 and severely injured or disabled veterans 

11 ‘‘(a) PASSENGER SCREENING.—The Assistant Sec12 retary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the 

13 Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and organizations identified 

14 by the Secretaries of Defense and Veteran Affairs that advo15 cate on behalf of severely injured or disabled members of 

16 the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans, 

17 shall develop and implement a process to support and fa18 cilitate the ease of travel and to the extent possible provide 

19 expedited passenger screening services for severely injured 

20 or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely in21 jured or disabled veterans through passenger screening. The 

22 process shall be designed to offer the individual private 

23 screening to the maximum extent practicable. 

24 ‘‘(b) OPERATIONS CENTER.—As part of the process 

25 under subsection (a), the Assistant Secretary shall main26 tain an operations center to provide support and facilitate 
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1 the movement of severely injured or disabled members of 

2 the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans 

3 through passenger screening prior to boarding a passenger 

4 aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier 

5 in air transportation or intrastate air transportation. 

6 ‘‘(c) PROTOCOLS.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 

7 ‘‘(1) establish and publish protocols, in consulta8 tion with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 

9 Veterans Affairs, and the organizations identified 

10 under subsection (a), under which a severely injured 

11 or disabled member of the Armed Forces or severely 

12 injured or disabled veteran, or the family member or 

13 other representative of such member or veteran, may 

14 contact the operations center maintained under sub15 section (b) and request the expedited passenger screen16 ing services described in subsection (a) for that mem17 ber or veteran; and 

18 ‘‘(2) upon receipt of a request under paragraph 

19 (1), require the operations center to notify the appro20 priate Federal Security Director of the request for ex21 pedited passenger screening services, as described in 

22 subsection (a), for that member or veteran. 

23 ‘‘(d) TRAINING.—The Assistant Secretary shall inte24 grate training on the protocols established under subsection 

25 (c) into the training provided to all employees who will reg-
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1 ularly provide the passenger screening services described in 

2 subsection (a). 

3 ‘‘(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec4 tion shall affect the authority of the Assistant Secretary to 

5 require additional screening of a severely injured or dis6 abled member of the Armed Forces, a severely injured or 

7 disabled veteran, or their accompanying family members or 

8 nonmedical attendants, if intelligence, law enforcement, or 

9 other information indicates that additional screening is 

10 necessary. 

11 ‘‘(f) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 

12 enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the As13 sistant Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the 

14 implementation of this section. Each report shall include 

15 each of the following: 

16 ‘‘(1) Information on the training provided under 

17 subsection (d). 

18 ‘‘(2) Information on the consultations between 

19 the Assistant Secretary and the organizations identi20 fied under subsection (a). 

21 ‘‘(3) The number of people who accessed the oper22 ations center during the period covered by the report. 

23 ‘‘(4) Such other information as the Assistant 

24 Secretary determines is appropriate.’’. 
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1 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at 

2 the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 49, 

3 United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 

4 relating to section 44926 the following new item: 

‘‘44927. Expedited screening for severely injured or disabled members of the Armed 

Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans.’’. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 
113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H.R. 1344 

AMENDMENT