Title: Cents for Sense Act of 2019
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Cents for Sense Act of 2019
This bill establishes the Traveler's Border Protection Fund and directs the Transportation Security Administration to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints into the fund. The fund shall be available only to the Department of Homeland Security for the construction or maintenance of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4383 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4383

     To ensure that unclaimed money recovered at airport security 
   checkpoints is transferred to a fund for certain border security 
                  activities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To ensure that unclaimed money recovered at airport security 
   checkpoints is transferred to a fund for certain border security 
                  activities, 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 ``Cents for Sense Act of 2019''.

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

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Establishment of fund.--There is established in the 
        Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the 
        ``Traveler's Border Protection Fund'' (in this subsection 
        referred to as the ``Fund'').
            (2) Transfers to fund.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
        Administration shall ensure the transfer to the Fund of 
        unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints.
            (3) Authorized uses.--Amounts may be made available from 
        the Fund only--
                    (A) to the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
                    (B) for the construction or maintenance of a 
                barrier along the international border between the 
                United States and Mexico.
            (4) Annual report.--Each fiscal year, the Secretary of 
        Homeland Security shall submit to Congress a report that 
        contains a detailed description of--
                    (A) the amount of unclaimed money recovered from 
                airport security checkpoints in the most recently 
                completed fiscal year;
                    (B) the amounts available in the Fund; and
                    (C) how amounts made available from the Fund have 
                been used for the activities described in paragraph 
                (3)(B).
    (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.--
            (1) Conforming amendments.--Section 44945 of title 49, 
        United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``money and'';
                    (B) by striking subsection (a); and
                    (C) in subsection (b)--
                            (i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 
                        (4) as subsections (a) through (d), 
                        respectively, and adjusting the margins 
                        accordingly; and
                            (ii) by striking ``(b) Disposition of 
                        Unclaimed Clothing.--''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 
        449 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by amending the 
        item relating to section 44945 to read as follows:

``44945. Disposition of unclaimed clothing.''.
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