TRANSLATE Act
Bill: S.3296 | Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky (D-NV)
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
TSA Reaching Across Nationalities, Societies, and Languages to Advance Traveler Education Act or the TRANSLATE Act
This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop a plan to ensure that TSA material disseminated in major airports is better understood by people accessing such airports, including by foreign language speakers and people with vision or hearing impairments.
In developing a plan, the TSA must take into consideration data regarding international enplanement and local populations surrounding major airports.
The Government Accountability Office must also review the implementation of the plan.

To require the TSA to develop a plan to ensure that TSA material 
disseminated in major airports can be better understood by more people 
            accessing such airports, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``TSA Reaching Across Nationalities, 
Societies, and Languages to Advance Traveler Education Act'' or the 
``TRANSLATE Act''.

SEC. 2. PLAN TO IMPROVE MATERIALS DISSEMINATED BY TRANSPORTATION 
              SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives a plan 
to ensure that TSA material disseminated in major airports can be 
better understood by individuals accessing such airports.
    (b) Contents.--The plan required under subsection (a) shall include 
the following:
            (1) An identification of the most common languages other 
        than English that are the primary languages of individuals that 
        travel through or work in each major airport.
            (2) A plan to improve--
                    (A) TSA materials to communicate information in 
                languages identified pursuant to paragraph (1); and
                    (B) the communication of TSA material to 
                individuals with vision or hearing impairments or other 
                possible barriers to understanding such material.
    (c) Considerations.--In developing the plan required under 
subsection (a), the Administrator, acting through the Office of Civil 
Rights and Liberties, Ombudsman, and Traveler Engagement of the 
Transportation Security Administration, shall consider data regarding 
the following:
            (1) International enplanement.
            (2) Local populations surrounding major airports.
            (3) Languages spoken by members of Indian Tribes within 
        each service area population in which a major airport is 
        located.
    (d) Implementation.--Not later than 180 days after the submission 
of the plan required under subsection (a), the Administrator, in 
consultation with the owner or operator of each major airport, shall 
implement such plan.
    (e) GAO Review.--Not later than 1 year after the implementation 
pursuant to subsection (d) of the plan required under subsection (a), 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall--
            (1) conduct a review of such implementation; and
            (2) submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
        Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland 
        Security of the House of Representatives a report on such 
        review.
    (f) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
            (2) Indian tribe.--The term ``Indian Tribe'' means an 
        Indian Tribe, as defined in section 102 of the Federally 
        Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5130), 
        individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list 
        published most recently as of the date of enactment of this Act 
        pursuant to section 104 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 5131).
            (2)(3) Major airport.--The term ``major airport'' means an 
        airport classified by the Transportation Security 
        Administration as a Category X or Category I airport.
            (3)(4) Non-traveling individual.--The term ``non-traveling 
        individual'' has the meaning given such term in section 1560.3 
        of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.
            (4)(5) TSA material.--The term ``TSA material'' means 
        signs, videos, audio messages, websites, press releases, social 
        media postings, and other communications published and 
        disseminated by the Administrator in major airports for use by 
        both traveling and non-traveling individuals.
                                                       Calendar No. 626

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3296

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