Title: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability Act of 2018
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability Act of 2018
This bill prohibits the U.S. Coast Guard from: (1) implementing the rule titled "Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)-Reader Requirements," and (2) proposing or issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking for a rule that would require the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation security cards.
These prohibitions end 60 days after the Department of Homeland Security submits to Congress an assessment of the transportation security card program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5729 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5729

 To restrict the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from 
   implementing any rule requiring the use of biometric readers for 
   biometric transportation security cards until after submission to 
 Congress of the results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the 
                 transportation security card program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2018

Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. McCaul, Ms. Jackson Lee, and Mr. Richmond) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To restrict the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from 
   implementing any rule requiring the use of biometric readers for 
   biometric transportation security cards until after submission to 
 Congress of the results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the 
                 transportation security card program.

    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 ``Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential Accountability Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSPORTATION WORKER 
              IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL BIOMETRIC READER RULE.

    The department in which the Coast Guard is operating may not 
implement the rule entitled ``Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential (TWIC)-Reader Requirements'' (81 Fed. Reg. 57651), and may 
not propose or issue a notice of proposed rulemaking for any revision 
to such rule except to extend its effective date, or for any other rule 
requiring the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation 
security cards under section 70105(k)(3) of title 46, United States 
Code, before the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of the 
submission under paragraph (5) of section 1(b) of Public Law 114-278 
(130 Stat. 1411 to 1412) of the results of the assessment required by 
that section.
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