IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5811 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 1, 2020 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To require the Transportation Security Administration to 
provide nursing facilities and paid parental leave for 
Administration personnel, 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 Personnel Work-
place Improvement Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. NURSING FACILITIES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECU-
RITY ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 
the Transportation Security Administration shall ensure 
that all Administration personnel have adequate access to 
facilities designated for use by nursing mothers in the 
workplace. Such facilities shall be— 
(1) assessed for cleanliness, safety, and accessi-
bility to personnel duty stations; 
(2) free of charge; 
(3) located in a place, other than a bathroom, 
that is shielded from view and free from intrusion 
from coworkers and the public; and 
(4) available for personnel to use with a reason-
able break time to express breast milk for a child of 
such personnel each time such personnel has a need 
to express milk. 
(b) DURATION.—The Administrator of the Transpor-
tation Security Administration shall ensure that the avail-
ability to Administration personnel described in subsection 
(a)(4) is for a period of time equal to at least one year 
from the birth of a child of an Administration employee. 
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(c) COORDINATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS.—In car-
rying out the requirements in subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator of the Transportation Security Administration shall 
coordinate with the National Institutes for Health and the 
labor organization representing Administration screening 
personnel. 
(d) NOTIFICATION.—The Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration shall inform Ad-
ministration personnel about the availability under sub-
section (a) of facilities designed for use by nursing moth-
ers in the workplace. 
SEC. 3. PAID PARENTAL LEAVE. 
Section 114(n)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The personnel management’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(A) Consistent with subparagraph 
(B), the personnel management’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) The Administrator shall ensure that all 
Administration personnel not provided paid parental 
leave under subparagraph (B) of section 111(d)(2) 
(as added by section 7606 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 
116–92)) are provided at least 12 weeks of such 
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leave, consistent with the requirements of such sub-
paragraph.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 30, 
2020. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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