Title: Honorably Discharged Transportation Worker Identification Credential Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Honorably Discharged Transportation Worker Identification Credential Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a process for issuing provisional transportation security cards to covered veterans for use on a vessel or in a facility to give access to areas designated as secure by DHS. Such provisional transportation security cards are for use beginning on the date a covered veteran applies for a transportation security card and ending on the date on which such card is issued or denied.
A covered veteran is an individual who (1) served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released under honorable conditions; and (2) during such service was subjected to a rigorous security screening.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4552 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4552

 To amend title 46, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of 
  provisional transportation security cards to veterans who have been 
              honorably discharged from the Armed Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 46, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of 
  provisional transportation security cards to veterans who have been 
              honorably discharged from the Armed Forces.

    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 ``Honorably Discharged Transportation 
Worker Identification Credential Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF PROVISIONAL TWIC CARDS TO VETERANS WHO HAVE BEEN 
              HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMED FORCES.

    Section 70105 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(r) Provisional Security Cards.--(1) The Secretary shall 
establish a process under which the Secretary shall issue provisional 
transportation security cards to covered veterans to be used during the 
beginning on the date a covered veteran applies for a transportation 
security card issued under subsection (b) and ending on the date on 
which such card is issued or denied to such veteran.
    ``(2) A provisional transportation security card issued to a 
covered veteran under this subsection shall authorize such covered 
veterans to have access to secure areas in the same manner as 
transportation security cards issued under subsection (b).
    ``(3) In this subsection, a covered veteran is an individual who--
            ``(A) served in the active military, naval, or air service, 
        and who was discharged or released therefrom under honorable 
        conditions; and
            ``(B) during such service was subjected to a rigorous 
        security screening.
    ``(4) The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, may prescribe a time period 
following discharge or separation from service in the Armed Forces 
during which an individual may be considered a covered veteran under 
paragraph (3).''.
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