TSA Loose Change Act

Bill: 115-hr-96
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports

Currency

Military personnel and dependents

Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Transportation safety and security
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>TSA Loose Change Act</b></p> <p> This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to transfer annually, based on requests for proposals, unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that operate multiple airport centers throughout the United States to provide places of rest and recuperation for Armed Forces members and their families. (Currently, such moneys are retained by the TSA for civil aviation security.)</p> <p>The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 is amended to replace the requirement that the TSA report annually to Congress on how unclaimed money is being used to provide civil aviation security with a requirement that the TSA report on the amount of money transferred to nonprofit organizations.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 96 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2017 Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the TSA Loose Change Act . 2. Disposition of unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints (a) Disposition of unclaimed money Section 44945(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting after the date of enactment of the TSA Loose Change Act, after title 31, ; (2) by striking shall be retained by the Transportation Security Administration and all that follows through this chapter and inserting shall be annually transferred, based on requests for proposals, by the Assistant Secretary to nonprofit organizations that operate airport centers in multiple locations throughout the United States to provide places of rest and recuperation for members of the Armed Forces and their families ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new sentence: The Assistant Secretary shall ensure that the name of each nonprofit agency to which funds are transferred under this subsection is printed in the Federal Register. . (b) Annual report Section 515(b) of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 ( Public Law 108–334 ; 118 Stat. 1318; 49 U.S.C. 44945 note) is amended— (1) by striking the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and inserting the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives ; and (2) by striking and specifically how the unclaimed money is being used to provide civil aviation security and inserting and the amount of unclaimed money transferred to nonprofit organizations under section 44945(a) of title 49, United States Code, and the dates of such transfers .