Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act

Bill: 113-s-1008
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2013-05-22
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Aviation and airports

Department of Homeland Security

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing any change to the prohibited items list of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that would permit passengers to carry small, non-locking knives through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas at airports, or on board passenger aircraft.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1008 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 22, 2013 Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Lautenberg , Mr. Menendez , and Ms. Murkowski ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from implementing proposed policy changes that would permit passengers to carry small, non-locking knives on aircraft.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act . 2. Prohibition on implementation of policy change to permit small, non-locking knives on aircraft (a) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security may not implement any change to the prohibited items list of the Transportation Security Administration that would permit passengers to carry small, non-locking knives through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas at airports, or on board passenger aircraft. (b) Prohibited items list defined In this section, the term prohibited items list means the list of items passengers are prohibited from carrying as accessible property or on their persons through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas at airports, and on board passenger aircraft pursuant to section 1540.111 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on January 1, 2013).