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SEC. 2. OPERATIONS CENTER PROGRAM FOR SEVERELY IN-
JURED OR DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE 
ARMED FORCES AND SEVERELY INJURED OR 
DISABLED VETERANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 
49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘§ 44927. Expedited screening for severely injured or 
disabled members of the Armed Forces 
and severely injured or disabled veterans 
‘‘(a) PASSENGER SCREENING.—The Assistant Sec-
retary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and organizations identified 
by the Secretaries of Defense and Veteran Affairs that advo-
cate on behalf of severely injured or disabled members of 
the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans, 
shall develop and implement a process to support and fa-
cilitate the ease of travel and to the extent possible provide 
expedited passenger screening services for severely injured 
or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely in-
jured or disabled veterans through passenger screening. The 
process shall be designed to offer the individual private 
screening to the maximum extent practicable. 
‘‘(b) OPERATIONS CENTER.—As part of the process 
under subsection (a), the Assistant Secretary shall main-
tain an operations center to provide support and facilitate
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the movement of severely injured or disabled members of 
the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans 
through passenger screening prior to boarding a passenger 
aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier 
in air transportation or intrastate air transportation. 
‘‘(c) PROTOCOLS.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) establish and publish protocols, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, and the organizations identified 
under subsection (a), under which a severely injured 
or disabled member of the Armed Forces or severely 
injured or disabled veteran, or the family member or 
other representative of such member or veteran, may 
contact the operations center maintained under sub-
section (b) and request the expedited passenger screen-
ing services described in subsection (a) for that mem-
ber or veteran; and 
‘‘(2) upon receipt of a request under paragraph 
(1), require the operations center to notify the appro-
priate Federal Security Director of the request for ex-
pedited passenger screening services, as described in 
subsection (a), for that member or veteran. 
‘‘(d) TRAINING.—The Assistant Secretary shall inte-
grate training on the protocols established under subsection 
(c) into the training provided to all employees who will reg-
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ularly provide the passenger screening services described in 
subsection (a). 
‘‘(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall affect the authority of the Assistant Secretary to 
require additional screening of a severely injured or dis-
abled member of the Armed Forces, a severely injured or 
disabled veteran, or their accompanying family members or 
nonmedical attendants, if intelligence, law enforcement, or 
other information indicates that additional screening is 
necessary. 
‘‘(f) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the As-
sistant Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the 
implementation of this section. Each report shall include 
each of the following: 
‘‘(1) Information on the training provided under 
subsection (d). 
‘‘(2) Information on the consultations between 
the Assistant Secretary and the organizations identi-
fied under subsection (a). 
‘‘(3) The number of people who accessed the oper-
ations center during the period covered by the report. 
‘‘(4) Such other information as the Assistant 
Secretary determines is appropriate.’’.
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at 
the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
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.