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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 96 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary 
of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to trans-
fer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to non-
profit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation at air-
ports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2017 
Ms. BROWNLEY of California introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assist-
ant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Se-
curity Administration) to transfer unclaimed money re-
covered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit orga-
nizations that provide places of rest and recuperation 
at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their 
families, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘TSA Loose Change 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED MONEY RECOVERED 
AT AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKPOINTS. 
(a) DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED MONEY.—Section 
44945(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘after the date of enactment of 
the TSA Loose Change Act,’’ after ‘‘title 31,’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘shall be retained by the Trans-
portation Security Administration’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘this chapter’’ and inserting ‘‘shall be 
annually transferred, based on requests for pro-
posals, by the Assistant Secretary to nonprofit orga-
nizations that operate airport centers in multiple lo-
cations throughout the United States to provide 
places of rest and recuperation for members of the 
Armed Forces and their families’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘The Assistant Secretary shall ensure that 
the name of each nonprofit agency to which funds 
are transferred under this subsection is printed in 
the Federal Register.’’. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 515(b) of the De-
partment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 
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(Public Law 108–334; 118 Stat. 1318; 49 U.S.C. 44945 
note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure of the House of Represent-
atives’’ and inserting ‘‘the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘and specifically how the un-
claimed money is being used to provide civil aviation 
security’’ and inserting ‘‘and the amount of un-
claimed money transferred to nonprofit organiza-
tions under section 44945(a) of title 49, United 
States Code, and the dates of such transfers’’. 
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