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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3212 
To provide certain personnel management requirements for the Transportation 
Security Administration, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2007 
Mrs. LOWEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform, 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 provide certain personnel management requirements for 
the Transportation Security Administration, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT. 
(a) ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN PERSONNEL MANAGE-
MENT AUTHORITIES.—Effective 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act— 
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(1) section 111(d) of the Aviation and Trans-
portation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 note) is re-
pealed and any authority of the Secretary of Home-
land Security derived from such section 111(d) shall 
terminate; 
(2) any personnel management system, to the 
extent established or modified pursuant to such sec-
tion 111(d) (including by the Secretary through the 
exercise of any authority derived from such section 
111(d)) shall terminate; and 
(3) the Secretary shall ensure that all TSA em-
ployees are subject to the same personnel manage-
ment system as described in subsection (e)(1) or 
(e)(2). 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN UNIFORMITY RE-
QUIREMENTS.— 
(1) SYSTEM
UNDER
SUBSECTION
(e)(1).—The 
Secretary shall, with respect to any personnel man-
agement system described in subsection (e)(1), take 
any measures which may be necessary to provide for 
the uniform treatment of all TSA employees under 
such system. 
(2) SYSTEM UNDER SUBSECTION (e)(1).—Sec-
tion 9701(b) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (4); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (5) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(6) provide for the uniform treatment of all 
TSA employees (as defined in section 408(d) of the 
Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommenda-
tions Act of 2007).’’. 
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(A) PROVISIONS RELATING TO A SYSTEM 
UNDER SUBSECTION (e)(1).—Any measures nec-
essary to carry out paragraph (1) shall take ef-
fect 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
(B) PROVISIONS RELATING TO A SYSTEM 
UNDER SUBSECTION (e)(2).—Any measures nec-
essary to carry out the amendments made by 
paragraph (2) shall take effect 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act or, if 
later, the commencement date of the system in-
volved. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
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(1) REPORT
REQUIRED.—Not later than 6 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Government Accountability Office shall submit 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate a report on— 
(A) the pay system that applies with re-
spect to TSA employees as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act; and 
(B) any changes to such system which 
would be made under any regulations which 
have been prescribed under chapter 97 of title 
5, United States Code. 
(2) MATTERS FOR INCLUSION.—The report re-
quired under paragraph (1) shall include— 
(A) a brief description of each pay system 
described in paragraphs (1)(A) and (1)(B), re-
spectively; 
(B) a comparison of the relative advan-
tages and disadvantages of each of those pay 
systems; and 
(C) such other matters as the Government 
Accountability Office considers appropriate. 
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(d) TSA EMPLOYEE DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘TSA employee’’ means an individual who holds— 
(1) any position which was transferred (or the 
incumbent of which was transferred) from the 
Transportation Security Administration of the De-
partment of Transportation to the Department of 
Homeland Security by section 403 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 203); or 
(2) any other position within the Department of 
Homeland Security the duties and responsibilities of 
which include carrying out one or more of the func-
tions that were transferred from the Transportation 
Security Administration of the Department of 
Transportation to the Secretary by such section. 
(e) 
PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
DE-
SCRIBED.—A personnel management system described in 
this subsection is— 
(1) any personnel management system, to the 
extent that it applies with respect to any TSA em-
ployees by virtue of section 114(n) of title 49, 
United States Code; and 
(2) any human resources management system, 
established under chapter 97 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
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