Title: No Fly for Terrorists Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
No Fly for Terrorists Act
This bill amends federal transportation provisions and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to prohibit Department of Homeland Security personnel from prohibiting a citizen or permanent resident of the United States from boarding a flight or a cruise ship as a passenger based on his or her inclusion on any no fly list, no transport list, automatic selectee list, consolidated and integrated terrorist watchlist, or other similar list maintained by the government unless the individual has been convicted of a federal crime of terrorism.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 248 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 248

   To limit the authority of personnel of the Department of Homeland 
  Security to prohibit a citizen or permanent resident of the United 
States from boarding as a passenger on an aircraft or cruise ship based 
 on inclusion of the individual in a watchlist, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2017

  Mr. Amash introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
   To limit the authority of personnel of the Department of Homeland 
  Security to prohibit a citizen or permanent resident of the United 
States from boarding as a passenger on an aircraft or cruise ship based 
 on inclusion of the individual in a watchlist, 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 ``No Fly for Terrorists Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PREVENTING A CITIZEN OR PERMANENT RESIDENT OF 
              THE UNITED STATES FROM BOARDING AS A PASSENGER ON AN 
              AIRCRAFT OR CRUISE SHIP BASED ON INCLUSION IN A 
              WATCHLIST.

    (a) Aircraft.--Section 44903(j)(2) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by redesignating subparagraph (H) as subparagraph (I), and 
by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following:
                    ``(H) Prohibition on preventing a passenger from 
                boarding absent conviction for crime of terrorism.--No 
                personnel of the Department of Homeland Security may 
                prohibit an individual who is a citizen or permanent 
                resident of the United States from boarding as a 
                passenger on a flight based on the inclusion of the 
                individual on any automatic selectee list, no fly list, 
                consolidated and integrated terrorist watchlist, or 
                other similar list maintained by the Federal Government 
                unless the individual has been convicted of a Federal 
                crime of terrorism as such term is defined in section 
                2332b(g)(5) of title 18.''.
    (b) Cruise Ships.--Section of title 40701 of the Intelligence 
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (46 U.S.C. 70101 note) is 
amended by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e), and by 
inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Prohibition on Preventing a Passenger From Boarding Absent 
Conviction for Crime of Terrorism.--No personnel of the Department of 
Homeland Security may prohibit an individual who is a citizen or 
permanent resident of the United States from boarding as a passenger on 
a cruise ship based on the inclusion of the individual on the no 
transport list, automatic selectee list, consolidated and integrated 
terrorist watchlist, or other similar list maintained by the Federal 
Government unless the individual has been convicted of a Federal crime 
of terrorism as such term is defined in section 2332b(g)(5) of title 
18.''.
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