Title: Healthy Skies Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Healthy Skies Act
This bill requires the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct a pilot program at a minimum of 10 airports to establish and test procedures to screen all passengers for their temperatures before such passengers proceed through security into the sterile area. If the temperature of a passenger exceeds the guidance for what constitutes a fever issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the time such temperature screening is carried out, the TSA shall not permit such passenger to enter the sterile area.
The TSA shall consider a resolution process for identifying medical conditions unrelated to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) that could result in a temperature that exceeds CDC guidance.
The pilot program terminates on the date of the termination of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7651 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7651

  To require the Transportation Security Administration to conduct a 
 pilot program to screen all passengers for their temperatures before 
   such passengers proceed through security, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2020

   Mr. Norman (for himself, Mr. Budd, and Mr. Larson of Connecticut) 
 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 conduct a 
 pilot program to screen all passengers for their temperatures before 
   such passengers proceed through security, 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 ``Healthy Skies Act''.

SEC. 2. TSA TEMPERATURE SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--In order to promote the safety of the traveling 
public during the COVID-19 public health emergency or other pandemic or 
public health emergency, the Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration (the ``Administrator'') shall carry out a pilot 
program at a minimum of 10 airports selected by the Administrator to 
establish and test procedures to screen all passengers for their 
temperatures before such passengers proceed through security into the 
sterile area. If the temperature of a passenger exceeds the guidance 
for what constitutes a fever issued by the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention at the time such temperature screening is carried out, 
the Administrator shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
not permit such passenger to enter the sterile area.
    (b) Consideration.--In carrying out the pilot program under 
subsection (a), the Administrator shall consider a resolution process 
for identifying medical conditions unrelated to COVID-19 that could 
result in a temperature that exceeds CDC guidance.
    (c) Report.--At the conclusion of the pilot program under 
subsection (a), the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on 
the findings of the program, including lessons learned and how such 
lessons may be applied in a future pandemic or other public health 
emergency.
    (d) Sunset.--This section shall terminate on the date of the 
termination of the COVID-19 public health emergency, as specified by 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services consistent with section 319 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d).
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