Title: Pay Our TSA Screeners Act of 2019
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Pay Our TSA Screeners Act of 2019
This bill authorizes the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to use security service fees to pay Transportation Security Officer salaries during a lapse in appropriations for the TSA. The TSA must notify Congress when using the authority provided by this bill.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 705 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 705

     To authorize the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
       Administration to utilize the security service fee to pay 
      Transportation Security officer salaries during a lapse in 
appropriations for the Transportation Security Administration, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2019

 Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Brindisi, Mr. Van Drew, Ms. Stefanik, and 
 Mr. Stivers) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
     To authorize the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
       Administration to utilize the security service fee to pay 
      Transportation Security officer salaries during a lapse in 
appropriations for the Transportation Security Administration, 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 ``Pay Our TSA Screeners Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. USE OF SECURITY SERVICE FEE TO PAY SALARIES OF TRANSPORTATION 
              SECURITY OFFICERS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
including section 44940 of title 49, United States Code, during any 
lapse in appropriations with respect to the Transportation Security 
Administration, the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration is authorized to utilize amounts payable to the 
Administrator pursuant to the security service fee under such section 
to pay Transportation Security officer salaries to ensure effective 
continuity of security operations at airports.
    (b) Notification to Congress.--If the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration exercises the authority provided 
under subsection (a), the Administrator shall notify the Committee on 
Homeland Security and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate of 
such exercise.
    (c) Termination.--The authority provided under subsection (a) 
terminates, with respect to any lapse in appropriations with respect to 
the Transportation Security Administration, on the date of the 
enactment of any Act making appropriations for the Transportation 
Security Administration.
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