I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2127 
To direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
to limit access to expedited airport security screening at an airport 
security checkpoint to participants of the PreCheck program and other 
known low-risk passengers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 30, 2015 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. KATKO, and Miss RICE of 
New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration to limit access to expedited airport secu-
rity screening at an airport security checkpoint to partici-
pants of the PreCheck program and other known low- 
risk passengers, 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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing Expedited 
Screening Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Aviation and Transportation Security 
Act (Public Law 107–71) authorized the Transpor-
tation Security Administration to ‘‘establish require-
ments to implement trusted passenger programs and 
use available technologies to expedite the security 
screening of passengers who participate in such pro-
grams, thereby allowing security screening personnel 
to focus on those passengers who should be subject 
to more extensive screening.’’. 
(2) In October 2011, the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration began piloting the PreCheck 
program in which a limited number of passengers 
who were participants in the frequent flyer programs 
of domestic air carriers were directed to special 
screening lanes for expedited security screening. 
(3) In December 2013, the Transportation Se-
curity Administration opened the PreCheck program 
to eligible passengers who submit biographic and bi-
ometric information for a security risk assessment. 
(4) Today, expedited security screening is pro-
vided to passengers who, in general, are members of 
populations identified by the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration as pre-
senting a low risk to aviation security, including 
members of populations known and vetted by the 
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Administrator or through another Department of 
Homeland Security trusted traveler program, and to 
passengers who are selected by expedited screening 
on a case-by-case basis through the Transportation 
Security Administration’s Managed Inclusion process 
and other procedures. 
(5) According to the Transportation Security 
Administration, the Managed Inclusion process 
‘‘combines the use of multiple layers of security to 
indirectly conduct a real-time assessment of pas-
sengers’’ through the use of Passenger Screening 
Canine teams, Behavior Detection Officers, Explo-
sives Trace Detection (ETD) machines, and other 
activities. 
(6) In December 2014, the Comptroller General 
of the United States concluded in a report entitled 
‘‘Rapid Growth in Expedited Passenger Screening 
Highlights Need to Plan Effective Security Assess-
ments’’ that ‘‘it will be important for TSA to evalu-
ate the security effectiveness of the Managed Inclu-
sion process as a whole, to ensure that it is func-
tioning as intended and that passengers are being 
screened at a level commensurate with their risk’’. 
(7) On March 16, 2015, the Inspector General 
of the Department of Homeland Security released a 
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