Title: Transparency in Technological Acquisitions Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transparency in Technological Acquisitions Act of 2017
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to submit annually (currently, biennially):
The TSA shall also include information about acquisitions completed during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which such report is submitted.
The TSA shall:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1353 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1353

     To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require certain 
   additional information to be submitted to Congress regarding the 
   strategic 5-year technology investment plan of the Transportation 
                        Security Administration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2017

 Miss Rice of New York (for herself, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Keating, 
and Mr. Katko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require certain 
   additional information to be submitted to Congress regarding the 
   strategic 5-year technology investment plan of the Transportation 
                        Security Administration.

    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 ``Transparency in Technological 
Acquisitions Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS UNDER THE 
              STRATEGIC 5-YEAR TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT PLAN OF THE 
              TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Additional Information Required.--Section 1611 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 563) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``biennially'' and inserting ``annually'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(3) information about acquisitions completed during the 
        fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which the report 
        is submitted.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(h) Notice of Covered Changes to Plan.--
            ``(1) Notice required.--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 notice of any covered change to the Plan by not 
        later than 90 days after the date on which the change is made.
            ``(2) Definition of change.--In this subsection, the term 
        `covered change' means an increase or decrease in the dollar 
        amount allocated to the procurement of a technology or an 
        increase or decrease in the number of a technology.''.
    (b) Report on Equipment in Operation Post-Life-Cycle.--Not later 
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 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 report describing any equipment of the Transportation 
Security Administration that is in operation after--
            (1) the end of the life-cycle of the equipment specified by 
        the manufacturer of the equipment; or
            (2) the end of the useful life projection for the equipment 
        under the strategic 5-year technology investment plan of the 
        Transportation Security Administration, as required by section 
        1611 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 563).
    (c) Notice to Airports and Airlines.--Upon the enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
shall notify airports and airlines of any changes to the 5-year 
technology investment plan of the Transportation Security 
Administration.
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