(1) by striking the section enumerator and 
heading and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 111. TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, AND TESTING OF SE-
CURITY SCREENING PERSONNEL.’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION OF ADVANCE NOTICE OF COVERT 
TESTING TO SECURITY SCREENERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Before a covert test relat-
ing to transportation security occurs, any covered 
employee shall not provide any information con-
cerning the covert test to any individual. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION
FOR
SELECT
STAFF.—Not-
withstanding paragraph (1), a covered employee may 
provide information concerning a covert test to em-
ployees or officers of the Federal Government se-
lected by one or more of the following: 
‘‘(A) The Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
Security (Transportation Security Administra-
tion). 
‘‘(B) The Inspector General of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(C) The Comptroller General of the 
United States. 
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‘‘(3) MONITORING AND SECURITY OF TESTING 
PERSONNEL.—Each head of a covert testing office 
shall ensure that a person or group of persons con-
ducting a covert test for a covert testing office is ac-
companied at the site of the test by a secondary 
team of employees of the covert testing office for the 
purpose of monitoring the covert test and confirming 
the identity of personnel involved in the covert test 
under paragraph (4). 
‘‘(4) RESPONSIBILITY
OF
THE
SECONDARY 
TEAM.—The secondary team shall— 
‘‘(A) monitor the covert test; and 
‘‘(B) confirm, notwithstanding paragraph 
(1), the identity of any authorized personnel 
conducting the covert test to any appropriate 
individual if a security screener or other indi-
vidual who is not a covered employee identifies 
the personnel conducting the test as a potential 
threat. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section the following definitions apply: 
‘‘(A) 
APPROPRIATE
INDIVIDUAL.—The 
term ‘appropriate individual’, as used with re-
spect to a covert test, means any individual that 
the secondary team monitoring the test under 
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paragraph (3) determines needs to know the 
identity of the individual conducting the test 
after the individual conducting the test has 
been identified as attempting to inappropriately 
gain access to a secure or sterile area of an air-
port. 
‘‘(B) COVERED
EMPLOYEE.—The term 
‘covered employee’ means an employee or con-
tractor of the Transportation Security Adminis-
tration who has access to information con-
cerning the timing or location of the covert test 
before such test occurs. 
‘‘(C) COVERT
TEST.—The term ‘covert 
test’ means an exercise conducted by a covert 
testing office during which security screening 
procedures related to transportation security 
are intentionally tested or transportation secu-
rity systems are intentionally compromised or 
circumvented to identify vulnerabilities in trans-
portation security systems if, before such exer-
cise begins, information about such test is pro-
vided only to covered employees and employees 
or officers selected under paragraph (2). 
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‘‘(D) COVERT TESTING OFFICE.—The term 
‘covert testing office’ means any of the fol-
lowing offices: 
‘‘(i) The Office of the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
‘‘(ii) The Office of Inspection of the 
Transportation Security Administration. 
‘‘(iii) The Office of Security Oper-
ations of the Transportation Security Ad-
ministration. 
‘‘(iv) The United States Government 
Accountability Office. 
‘‘(E) EMPLOYEE OF A COVERT TESTING 
OFFICE.—The term ‘employee of a covert test-
ing office’ includes an individual who is an em-
ployee of a covert testing office or a contractor 
or an employee of a contractor of a covert test-
ing office.’’. 
Æ 
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