Cleared List is taken into account when assess-
ing the security risk of an individual. 
‘‘(6) HANDLING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE 
INFORMATION.—The Secretary, in conjunction with 
the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department, shall— 
‘‘(A) require that Federal employees of the 
Department handling personally identifiable in-
formation of individuals (in this paragraph re-
ferred to as ‘PII’) complete mandatory privacy 
and security training prior to being authorized 
to handle PII; 
‘‘(B) ensure that the information main-
tained under this subsection is secured by 
encryption, 
one-way 
hashing, 
other 
data 
anonymization techniques, or such other equiva-
lent technical security protections as the Sec-
retary determines necessary; 
‘‘(C) limit the information collected from 
misidentified passengers or other individuals to 
the minimum amount necessary to resolve a re-
dress request; 
‘‘(D) ensure that the information main-
tained under this subsection is shared or trans-
ferred via a secure data network that has been 
audited to ensure that the anti-hacking and 
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other security related software functions prop-
erly and is updated as necessary; 
‘‘(E) ensure that any employee of the De-
partment receiving the information maintained 
under this subsection handles such information 
in accordance with the section 552a of title 5, 
United States Code, and the Federal Informa-
tion Security Management Act of 2002 (Public 
Law 107–296); 
‘‘(F) only retain the information main-
tained under this subsection for as long as 
needed to assist the individual traveler in the 
redress process; and 
‘‘(G) conduct and publish a privacy impact 
assessment of the appeal and redress process 
established under section and transmit the as-
sessment to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity of the House of Representatives, the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation of the Senate, and Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
‘‘(7) INITIATION OF REDRESS PROCESS AT AIR-
PORTS.—The Office shall establish at each airport at 
which the Department has a significant presence a 
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process to provide information to air carrier pas-
sengers to begin the redress process established pur-
suant to subsection (a). 
‘‘(8) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 
240 days after the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernment Affairs of the Senate on a report on the 
status of information sharing among users at the 
Department of the Terrorist Screening Database. 
The report shall include the following information: 
‘‘(A) A description of processes and status 
of implementation of this section to share the 
Comprehensive Cleared List with all Depart-
ment components and other Federal, State, 
local, and Tribal authorities that utilize the 
Terrorist Screening Database. 
‘‘(B) A description of the extent to which 
Department components other than the Trans-
portation Security Administration are taking 
into account the Comprehensive Cleared List. 
‘‘(C) Data on the number of individuals 
who have successfully obtained redress through 
the Office of Appeals and Redress. 
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‘‘(D) An assessment of what impact infor-
mation sharing of the Comprehensive Cleared 
List has had on misidentifications of individuals 
who have successfully obtained redress through 
the Office of Appeals and Redress.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking section 44926 (and 
the item relating to such section in the analysis for chap-
ter 449 of title 49). 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 1(b) of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(b)) is 
amended by adding after the item relating to section 890 
the following new item: 
‘‘890A. Appeal and redress process for passengers wrongly delayed or prohibited 
from boarding a flight.’’. 
Æ 
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