Title: TSA Personnel Workplace Improvement Act of 2020
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
TSA Personnel Workplace Improvement Act of 2020
This bill revises personnel policies of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Specifically, the TSA must ensure that its personnel (1) have adequate access to facilities designated for use by nursing mothers in the workplace, and (2) are provided at least 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5811 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5811

   To require the Transportation Security Administration to provide 
     nursing facilities and paid parental leave for Administration 
                   personnel, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2020

 Mr. Katko (for himself and Mr. Correa) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Transportation Security Administration to provide 
     nursing facilities and paid parental leave for Administration 
                   personnel, 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 Personnel Workplace Improvement 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. NURSING FACILITIES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
              PERSONNEL.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration shall ensure that all Administration personnel have 
adequate access to facilities designated for use by nursing mothers in 
the workplace. Such facilities shall be--
            (1) assessed for cleanliness, safety, and accessibility to 
        personnel duty stations;
            (2) free of charge;
            (3) located in a place, other than a bathroom, that is 
        shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and 
        the public; and
            (4) available for personnel to use with a reasonable break 
        time to express breast milk for a child of such personnel each 
        time such personnel has a need to express milk.
    (b) Duration.--The Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration shall ensure that the availability to Administration 
personnel described in subsection (a)(4) is for a period of time equal 
to at least one year from the birth of a child of an Administration 
employee.
    (c) Coordination With Stakeholders.--In carrying out the 
requirements in subsection (a), the Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration shall coordinate with the National Institutes 
for Health and the labor organization representing Administration 
screening personnel.

SEC. 3. PAID PARENTAL LEAVE.

    Section 114(n)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The personnel management'' and inserting 
        ``(A) Consistent with subparagraph (B), the personnel 
        management''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) The Administrator shall ensure that all 
        Administration personnel not provided paid parental leave under 
        subparagraph (B) of section 111(d)(2) (as added by section 7606 
        of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 
        (Public Law 116-92)) are provided at least 12 weeks of such 
        leave, consistent with the requirements of such 
        subparagraph.''.
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