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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2603 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate high threat 
helicopter flight areas and to provide special rules for screening of pas-
sengers and property to be transported on passenger helicopters operating 
to or from such areas and for helicopters flights in such areas, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2007 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate 
high threat helicopter flight areas and to provide special 
rules for screening of passengers and property to be 
transported on passenger helicopters operating to or from 
such areas and for helicopters flights in such areas, 
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 ‘‘High Threat Heli-
copter Flight Area Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall designate 
an area in the United States that the Secretary determines 
is an area at high risk for an attack by one or more terror-
ists as a high threat helicopter flight area. 
SEC. 3. SCREENING FOR PASSENGER HELICOPTERS DE-
PARTING HIGH THREAT FLIGHT AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall provide the same screening of all passengers and 
property that will be transported, from a point located in 
an area designated as a high threat helicopter area under 
section 2, on a passenger helicopter in the United States 
by a person (including an air carrier) as the screening that 
is provided for passengers and property that are carried 
aboard a passenger aircraft operated by an air carrier 
under section 44901 of title 49, United States Code. 
(b) DEADLINE
FOR BEGINNING.—The Secretary 
shall begin development of a plan for acquiring and train-
ing personnel, and acquiring equipment, to provide the 
screening required by subsection (a). 
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SEC. 4. SPECIAL RULES REGARDING FLIGHTS OF HELI-
COPTERS 
OPERATING 
IN 
HIGH 
THREAT 
FLIGHT AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall take such action as may be necessary to ensure 
that— 
(1) no passenger helicopter flies in an area des-
ignated as a high threat flight area by the Secretary 
of Homeland Security under section 2, except on ap-
proach for landing, or departure after take off, in 
such area; 
(2) whenever a passenger helicopter is flying in 
such an area, the helicopter, to maximum extent 
practicable, flies over water; and 
(3) the pilot of a flight of any helicopter in such 
an area remains in contact with the Federal Avia-
tion Administration regarding the flight path of such 
helicopter, regardless of the altitude of such heli-
copter. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall except from any requirement of subsection (a) a heli-
copter carrying out such military, police, medical, or other 
operations as the Secretary determines appropriate. 
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