Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act

Bill: 115-hr-2514
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2017-05-18
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports

Transportation programs funding

Transportation safety and security

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act</b></p> <p>This bill repeals the requirement that a portion of aviation security service fees collected from passengers be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2514 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 18, 2017 Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , and Mrs. Watson Coleman ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act . 2. Repeal of requirement regarding crediting and deposit of a portion of aviation security fees (a) Repeal Subsection (i) of section 44940 of title 49, United States Code, is repealed. (b) Conforming amendment Subsection (d)(4) of such section is amended by striking , other than subsection (i), .