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Union Calendar No. 166 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2127 
[Report No. 114–220] 
To direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
to limit access to expedited airport security screening at an airport 
security checkpoint to participants of the PreCheck program and other 
known low-risk passengers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 30, 2015 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. KATKO, and Miss RICE of 
New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security 
JULY 22, 2015 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 30, 2015] 
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A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration to limit access to expedited airport secu-
rity screening at an airport security checkpoint to partici-
pants of the PreCheck program and other known low- 
risk passengers, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing Expedited 
Screening Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Aviation and Transportation Security 
Act (Public Law 107–71) authorized the Transpor-
tation Security Administration to ‘‘establish require-
ments to implement trusted passenger programs and 
use available technologies to expedite the security 
screening of passengers who participate in such pro-
grams, thereby allowing security screening personnel 
to focus on those passengers who should be subject to 
more extensive screening.’’. 
(2) In October 2011, the Transportation Security 
Administration began piloting the PreCheck program 
in which a limited number of passengers who were 
participants in the frequent flyer programs of domes-
tic air carriers were directed to special screening 
lanes for expedited security screening. 
(3) In December 2013, the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration opened the PreCheck program to 
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eligible passengers who submit biographic and biomet-
ric information for a security risk assessment. 
(4) Today, expedited security screening is pro-
vided to passengers who, in general, are members of 
populations identified by the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration as pre-
senting a low risk to aviation security, including 
members of populations known and vetted by the Ad-
ministrator or through another Department of Home-
land Security trusted traveler program, and to pas-
sengers who are selected by expedited screening on a 
case-by-case basis through the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration’s Managed Inclusion process and 
other procedures. 
(5) According to the Transportation Security 
Administration, the Managed Inclusion process ‘‘com-
bines the use of multiple layers of security to indi-
rectly conduct a real-time assessment of passengers’’ 
through the use of Passenger Screening Canine teams, 
Behavior Detection Officers, Explosives Trace Detec-
tion (ETD) machines, and other activities. 
(6) In December 2014, the Comptroller General 
of the United States concluded in a report entitled 
‘‘Rapid Growth in Expedited Passenger Screening 
Highlights Need to Plan Effective Security Assess-
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ments’’ that ‘‘it will be important for TSA to evaluate 
the security effectiveness of the Managed Inclusion 
process as a whole, to ensure that it is functioning as 
intended and that passengers are being screened at a 
level commensurate with their risk’’. 
(7) On March 16, 2015, the Inspector General of 
the Department of Homeland Security released a re-
port entitled ‘‘Allegation of Granting Expedited 
Screening through TSA PreCheck Improperly’’, in 
which the Inspector General determined that the 
Transportation Security Administration granted ex-
pedited security screening at a PreCheck security lane 
to a passenger who had served time in prison for felo-
nies committed as a member of a domestic terrorist 
group and who was not a participant in the 
PreCheck program. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATION; PRECHECK OPERATIONS MAINTAINED; 
ALTERNATE METHODS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(d), not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration shall direct that access to expedited 
airport security screening at an airport security checkpoint 
be limited to only the following: 
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tation Security Administration shall ensure that expedited 
airport security screening remains available to passengers 
at or above the level that exists on the day before the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) MINORS AND SENIORS.—The Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration may provide ac-
cess to expedited airport security screening at an airport 
security checkpoint to a passenger who is— 
(1) 75 years old or older; or 
(2) 12 years old or under and who is traveling 
with a parent or guardian who is a participant in 
the PreCheck program. 
(d) FREQUENT FLIERS.—If the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration determines that 
such is appropriate, the date specified in subsection (a) may 
be extended by up to one year to implement such subsection 
with respect to the population of passengers who did not 
voluntarily submit biographic and biometric information 
for security risk assessments but who nevertheless receive ex-
pedited airport security screening because such passengers 
are designated as frequent fliers by air carriers. If the Ad-
ministrator uses the authority provided by this subsection, 
the Administrator shall notify the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the 
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Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate of such phased-in implementation. 
(e) ALTERNATE METHODS.—The Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration may provide ac-
cess to expedited airport security screening to additional 
passengers pursuant to an alternate method upon the sub-
mission to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate of an inde-
pendent assessment of the security effectiveness of such alter-
nate method that is conducted by an independent entity 
that determines that such alternate method is designed to— 
(1) reliably and effectively identify passengers 
who likely pose a low risk to the United States avia-
tion system; 
(2) mitigate the likelihood that a passenger who 
may pose a security threat to the United States avia-
tion system is selected for expedited security screen-
ing; and 
(3) address known and evolving security risks to 
the United States aviation system. 
(f) INFORMATION SHARING.—The Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration shall provide to 
the entity conducting the independent assessment under 
subsection (c) effectiveness testing results that are consistent 
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with established evaluation design practices, as identified 
by the Comptroller General of the United States. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING. 
Not later than three months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Administrator 
of the Transportation Security Administration shall report 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate on the percentage of all 
passengers who are provided expedited security screening, 
and of such passengers so provided, the percentage who are 
participants in the PreCheck program (who have volun-
tarily submitted biographic and biometric information for 
security risk assessments), the percentage who are partici-
pants in another trusted traveler program of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, the percentage who are partici-
pants in the PreCheck program due to the Administrator’s 
issuance of known traveler numbers, and for the remaining 
percentage of passengers granted access to expedited security 
screening in PreCheck security lanes, information on the 
percentages attributable to each alternative method utilized 
by the Transportation Security Administration to direct 
passengers to expedited airport security screening at 
PreCheck security lanes. 
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SEC. 5. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act may be construed to— 
(1) authorize or direct the Administrator of the 
Transportation Administration to reduce or limit the 
availability of expedited security screening at an air-
port; or 
(2) limit the authority of the Administrator to 
use technologies and systems, including passenger 
screening canines and explosives trace detection, as a 
part of security screening operations. 
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Union Calendar No. 166 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2127 
[Report No. 114–220] 
A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration to limit access to expe-
dited airport security screening at an airport se-
curity checkpoint to participants of the PreCheck 
program and other known low-risk passengers, 
and for other purposes. 
JULY 22, 2015 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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