I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6856 
To reduce the number of firearms at Transportation Security Administration 
passenger screening checkpoints by directing the Administrator to carry 
out a range of activities to inform the public about restrictions regarding 
the carrying of firearms in sterile areas of airports and to strengthen 
enforcement of such restrictions and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 28, 2022 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN (for herself and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Home-
land Security 
A BILL 
To reduce the number of firearms at Transportation Security 
Administration passenger screening checkpoints by di-
recting the Administrator to carry out a range of activi-
ties to inform the public about restrictions regarding 
the carrying of firearms in sterile areas of airports and 
to strengthen enforcement of such restrictions 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 ‘‘Securing Air Travel 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SIGNAGE. 
Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(m) SIGNAGE REGARDING FIREARMS.— 
‘‘(1) CHECKPOINT
SIGNAGE.—Not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this sub-
section, the Administrator of the Transportation Se-
curity Administration shall display uniform signage 
in passenger screening checkpoints to inform individ-
uals at such checkpoints of restrictions regarding 
the carrying of a firearm in the sterile area of an 
airport. Such signage shall include visual elements 
and a concise description of the maximum criminal 
and civil penalties (with relevant statutory or regu-
latory citations) for unlawfully carrying a firearm in 
the sterile area of an airport. 
‘‘(2) PLACEMENT.—Signage under paragraph 
(1) shall be prominently displayed and located in 
such a manner that it would reasonably be expected 
to be seen by an individual prior to entering the pas-
senger screening checkpoint. 
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‘‘(3) AIRPORTS
WITH
FREQUENT
FIREARM 
INTERDICTIONS.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this subsection and bienni-
ally thereafter, the Administrator of the Transpor-
tation Security Administration shall publish a list of 
not fewer than 25 airports at which firearms were 
most frequently interdicted at passenger screening 
checkpoints in the prior two years. If with respect to 
any such list there are fewer than 25 such airports, 
such list shall include as many of such airports as 
are otherwise described in this paragraph. 
‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL
ENHANCED
SIGNAGE
FOR 
AIRPORTS
WITH
FREQUENT
FIREARM
INTERDIC-
TIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the publication of each list required under paragraph 
(3), the Administrator of the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration shall require each airport in-
cluded on the list to install additional enhanced sign-
age at all passenger terminal entrances to such air-
ports to inform the public and individuals planning 
to enter a passenger screening checkpoint of the re-
strictions regarding the carrying of a firearm in the 
sterile area of the airport and, as applicable, State, 
local, territorial, or other jurisdiction-specific restric-
tions on carrying firearms in the publicly accessible 
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areas of the airport. Such additional enhanced sign-
age shall be consistent for all airports required to in-
stall such additional enhanced signage under this 
paragraph, except, as the case may be, for descrip-
tions of such applicable State, local, territorial, or 
other jurisdiction-specific restrictions. The Adminis-
trator may permit an airport to remove such signage 
if such airport is not included on a subsequent list. 
‘‘(5) OUTDATED SIGNAGE.—If any relevant in-
formation on signage installed pursuant to this sub-
section is rendered inaccurate due to statutory, reg-
ulatory, or other changes, the Administrator shall 
ensure such signage is updated in a timely manner, 
except this paragraph does not apply in the case of 
annual inflation adjustments to civil monetary pen-
alties. 
‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) 
PASSENGER
SCREENING
CHECK-
POINT.—The term ‘passenger screening check-
point’ means the designated area at each air-
port located in the United States at which the 
Transportation Security Administration, or an 
entity authorized by the Administration pursu-
ant to section 44920, or other comparable au-
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