Title: TSA Loose Change Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
TSA Loose Change Act
This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to transfer annually, based on requests for proposals, unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that operate multiple airport centers throughout the United States to provide places of rest and recuperation for Armed Forces members and their families. (Currently, such moneys are retained by the TSA for civil aviation security.)
The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 is amended to replace the requirement that the TSA report annually to Congress on how unclaimed money is being used to provide civil aviation security with a requirement that the TSA report on the amount of money transferred to nonprofit organizations.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 96

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) 
 to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints 
to nonprofit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation 
at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

  Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) 
 to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints 
to nonprofit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation 
at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, 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 Loose Change Act''.

SEC. 2. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED MONEY RECOVERED AT AIRPORT SECURITY 
              CHECKPOINTS.

    (a) Disposition of Unclaimed Money.--Section 44945(a) of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``after the date of enactment of the TSA 
        Loose Change Act,'' after ``title 31,'';
            (2) by striking ``shall be retained by the Transportation 
        Security Administration'' and all that follows through ``this 
        chapter'' and inserting ``shall be annually transferred, based 
        on requests for proposals, by the Assistant Secretary to 
        nonprofit organizations that operate airport centers in 
        multiple locations throughout the United States to provide 
        places of rest and recuperation for members of the Armed Forces 
        and their families''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``The 
        Assistant Secretary shall ensure that the name of each 
        nonprofit agency to which funds are transferred under this 
        subsection is printed in the Federal Register.''.
    (b) Annual Report.--Section 515(b) of the Department of Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-334; 118 Stat. 1318; 
49 U.S.C. 44945 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the Committee on Transportation and 
        Infrastructure of the House of Representatives'' and inserting 
        ``the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
        Representatives''; and
            (2) by striking ``and specifically how the unclaimed money 
        is being used to provide civil aviation security'' and 
        inserting ``and the amount of unclaimed money transferred to 
        nonprofit organizations under section 44945(a) of title 49, 
        United States Code, and the dates of such transfers''.
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