rent training of Federal flight 
deck officers as facilities ap-
proved for initial training and 
certification of pilots seeking to 
be deputized as Federal flight 
deck officers; and 
‘‘(cc) designate additional 
firearms training facilities for re-
current training of Federal flight 
deck officers relative to the num-
ber of such facilities available on 
the day before such date of en-
actment.’’. 
(b) FIREARMS
REQUALIFICATION
FOR
FEDERAL 
FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS.—Section 44921(c)(2)(C)(iii) of 
such title is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Under Secretary shall’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—The Sec-
retary shall’’; 
(2) in subclause (I), as designated by paragraph 
(1), by striking ‘‘the Under Secretary’’ and inserting 
‘‘the Secretary, but not more frequently than once 
every 6 months,’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(II) USE
OF
FACILITIES
FOR 
REQUALIFICATION.—The 
Secretary 
shall allow a Federal flight deck offi-
cer to requalify to carry a firearm 
under the program through training 
at a private or government-owned gun 
range certified to provide firearm re-
qualification training. 
‘‘(III) 
SELF-REPORTING.—The 
Secretary shall determine that a Fed-
eral flight deck officer has met the re-
quirements to requalify to carry a 
firearm under the program if— 
‘‘(aa) the officer reports to 
the Secretary that the officer has 
participated in a sufficient num-
ber of hours of training to re-
qualify to carry a firearm under 
the program; and 
‘‘(bb) the administrator of 
the facility at which the officer 
conducted 
the 
requalification 
training verifies that the officer 
participated in that number of 
hours of training.’’. 
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(c) 
LIMITATIONS
ON
TRAINING.—Section 
44921(c)(2) of such title is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(D) LIMITATIONS ON TRAINING.— 
‘‘(i) INITIAL
TRAINING.—The Sec-
retary may require— 
‘‘(I) initial training of not more 
than 5 days for a pilot to be deputized 
as a Federal flight deck officer; 
‘‘(II) the pilot to be physically 
present at the training facility for not 
more than 2 days of such training; 
and 
‘‘(III) not more than 3 days of 
such training to be in the form of cer-
tified online training administered by 
the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
‘‘(ii) 
RECURRENT
TRAINING.—The 
Secretary may require— 
‘‘(I) recurrent training of not 
more than 2 days, not more fre-
quently than once every 5 years, for a 
pilot to maintain deputization as a 
Federal flight deck officer; 
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‘‘(II) the pilot to be physically 
present at the training facility for a 
full-day training session for not more 
than one day of such training; and 
‘‘(III) not more than one day of 
such training to be in the form of cer-
tified online training administered by 
the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity.’’. 
(d) OTHER MEASURES TO FACILITATE TRAINING.— 
Section 44921(e) of such title is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Pilots participating’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Pilots participating’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) FACILITATION OF TRAINING.— 
‘‘(A) TIME OFF FOR TRAINING.—An air 
carrier shall permit a Federal flight deck officer 
or a pilot seeking to be deputized as a Federal 
flight deck officer to take a reasonable amount 
of leave from work to participate in initial and 
recurrent training for the program. An air car-
rier shall not be obligated to provide such an of-
ficer or pilot compensation for such leave. 
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‘‘(B) PRACTICE AMMUNITION.—At the re-
quest of a Federal flight deck officer, the Sec-
retary shall provide to the officer sufficient 
practice ammunition to conduct at least one 
practice course every month.’’. 
SEC. 3. CARRIAGE OF FIREARMS BY FEDERAL FLIGHT 
DECK OFFICERS. 
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Section 44921(f) of title 
49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and 
(2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall author-
ize a Federal flight deck officer to carry a firearm 
while engaged in providing air transportation or 
intrastate air transportation. The authority provided 
to a Federal flight deck officer under this paragraph 
includes the authority to carry a firearm— 
‘‘(A) on the officer’s body, loaded, and 
holstered; 
‘‘(B) when traveling to a flight duty as-
signment, throughout the duty assignment, and 
when traveling from a flight duty assignment to 
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the officer’s home or place where the officer is 
residing when traveling; and 
‘‘(C) in the passenger cabin and while 
traveling in a cockpit jump seat. 
‘‘(2) CONCEALED
CARRY.—A Federal flight 
deck officer shall make reasonable efforts to keep 
the officer’s firearm concealed when in public. 
‘‘(3) PURCHASE OF FIREARM BY OFFICER.— 
Notwithstanding subsection (c)(1), a Federal flight 
deck officer may purchase a firearm and carry that 
firearm aboard an aircraft of which the officer is the 
pilot in accordance with this section if the firearm 
is of a type that may be used under the program.’’. 
(b) CARRIAGE
OF FIREARMS
ON INTERNATIONAL 
FLIGHTS.—Paragraph (5) of section 44921(f) of such 
title, as redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(5) CARRYING
FIREARMS
OUTSIDE
UNITED 
STATES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In consultation with 
the Secretary of State, the Secretary— 
‘‘(i) may take such action as may be 
necessary to ensure that a Federal flight 
deck officer may carry a firearm in a for-
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eign country whenever necessary to partici-
pate in the program; and 
‘‘(ii) shall take such actions as are 
within the authority of the Secretary to en-
sure that a Federal flight deck officer may 
carry a firearm while engaged in providing 
foreign air transportation. 
‘‘(B) CONSISTENCY
WITH
FEDERAL
AIR 
MARSHAL PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall work 
to make policies relating to the carriage of fire-
arms on flights in foreign air transportation by 
Federal flight deck officers consistent with the 
policies of the Federal air marshal program for 
carrying firearms on such flights.’’. 
(c) CARRIAGE OF FIREARM IN PASSENGER CABIN.— 
(1) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Section 44921 
of title 49, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to require a Federal flight deck 
officer to place a firearm in a locked container, or in any 
other manner render the firearm unavailable, when the 
cockpit door is opened.’’. 
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(2) 
CONFORMING
REPEAL.—Section 
44921(b)(3) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking subparagraph (G); and 
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (H) 
through (N) as subparagraphs (G) through 
(M), respectively. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall— 
(1) prescribe regulations on the proper storage 
of firearms when a Federal flight deck officer is at 
home or where the officer is residing when traveling; 
and 
(2) revise the procedural requirements estab-
lished under section 44921(b)(1) of title 49, United 
States Code, to implement the amendments made by 
subsection (c). 
SEC. 4. PHYSICAL STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL FLIGHT DECK 
OFFICERS. 
Section 44921(d)(2) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 
and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively, 
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and by moving such clauses, as so redesignated, 2 
ems to the right; 
(2) by striking ‘‘A pilot is’’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A pilot is’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) CONSISTENCY WITH REQUIREMENTS 
FOR CERTAIN MEDICAL CERTIFICATES.—In es-
tablishing 
standards 
under 
subparagraph 
(A)(ii), the Secretary may not establish medical 
or physical standards for a pilot to become a 
Federal flight deck officer that are inconsistent 
with or more stringent than the requirements of 
the Federal Aviation Administration for the 
issuance of a first- or second-class airman med-
ical certificate under part 67 of title 14, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding 
similar regulation or ruling).’’. 
SEC. 5. TRANSFER OF FEDERAL FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS 
FROM INACTIVE TO ACTIVE STATUS. 
Section 44921(d) of such title is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) TRANSFER
FROM
INACTIVE
TO
ACTIVE 
STATUS.—A pilot deputized as a Federal flight deck 
officer who moves to inactive status may return to 
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active status after completing one program of recur-
rent training described in subsection (c).’’. 
SEC. 6. FACILITATION OF SECURITY SCREENING OF FED-
ERAL FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS. 
Section 44921 of title 49, United States Code, as 
amended by section 3(c)(1), is further amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(m) FACILITATION OF SECURITY SCREENING OF 
FEDERAL FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS.— 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY
FOR
EXPEDITED
SCREEN-
ING.—The Secretary shall allow a Federal flight 
deck officer to be screened through the crew member 
identity verification program of the Transportation 
Security Administration (commonly known as the 
‘Known Crew Member program’) when entering the 
sterile area of an airport. 
‘‘(2) PROHIBITION ON PAPERWORK.—The Sec-
retary may not require a Federal flight deck officer 
to fill out any forms or paperwork when entering the 
sterile area of an airport. 
‘‘(3) STERILE
AREA
DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘sterile area’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations (or any corresponding similar regu-
lation or ruling).’’. 
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SEC. 7. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 
Section 44921 of title 49, United States Code, as 
amended by this Act, is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Under Sec-
retary of Transportation for Security’’ and inserting 
‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)(4), by striking ‘‘may,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘may’’; 
(3) in subsection (i)(2), by striking ‘‘the Under 
Secretary may’’ and inserting ‘‘may’’; 
(4) in subsection (k)— 
(A) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘APPLICABILITY’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘This section’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘APPLICABILITY.—This section’’; 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(n) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) PILOT.—The term ‘pilot’ means an indi-
vidual who has final authority and responsibility for 
the operation and safety of the flight or any other 
flight deck crew member. 
‘‘(2) ALL-CARGO
AIR
TRANSPORTATION.—The 
term ‘air transportation’ includes all-cargo air trans-
portation.’’; and 
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(6) by striking ‘‘Under Secretary’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’. 
SEC. 8. REFUNDS OF CERTAIN SECURITY SERVICE FEES 
FOR AIR CARRIERS WITH FEDERAL FLIGHT 
DECK OFFICERS ON ALL FLIGHTS. 
Section 44940 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) REFUND OF FEES FOR AIR CARRIERS WITH 
FEDERAL FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS ON ALL FLIGHTS.— 
From fees received in a fiscal year under subsection 
(a)(1), each air carrier that certifies to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security that all flights operated by the air car-
rier have on board a pilot deputized as a Federal flight 
deck officer under section 44921 shall receive an amount 
equal to 10 percent of the fees collected under subsection 
(a)(1) from passengers on flights operated by that air car-
rier in that fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 9. TREATMENT OF INFORMATION ABOUT FEDERAL 
FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS AS SENSITIVE SECU-
RITY INFORMATION. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
revise section 15.5(b)(11) of title 49, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, to classify information about pilots deputized as 
Federal flight deck officers under section 44921 of title 
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49, United States Code, as sensitive security information 
in a manner consistent with the classification of informa-
tion about Federal air marshals. 
SEC. 10. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry 
out this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 
Æ 
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