113 HR 1344 EAS: Helping Heroes Fly Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2013-08-01
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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H.R. 1344
In the Senate of the United
States,
August 1, 2013.
Amendment:
That the bill from the House of Representatives
(H.R. 1344) entitled An Act to amend title 49, United States Code, to
direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security
Administration) to provide expedited air passenger screening to severely
injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or
disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
, do pass with the
following
Strike all after
the enacting clause and insert the
following:
1.This Act may be cited as the
Helping Heroes Fly Act
.
2.Operations center
program for severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and
severely injured or disabled veterans
(a)Subchapter I of
chapter 449 of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
44927.Expedited
screening for severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and
severely injured or disabled veterans
(a)The Assistant
Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, and organizations identified by the Secretaries of Defense
and Veteran Affairs that advocate on behalf of severely injured or disabled
members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans, shall
develop and implement a process to support and facilitate the ease of travel
and to the extent possible provide expedited passenger screening services for
severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured
or disabled veterans through passenger screening. The process shall be designed
to offer the individual private screening to the maximum extent
practicable.
(b)As part of the process
under subsection (a), the Assistant Secretary shall maintain an operations
center to provide support and facilitate the movement of severely injured or
disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans
through passenger screening prior to boarding a passenger aircraft operated by
an air carrier or foreign air carrier in air transportation or intrastate air
transportation.
(c)The
Assistant Secretary shall—
(1)establish and publish protocols, in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
and the organizations identified under subsection (a), under which a severely
injured or disabled member of the Armed Forces or severely injured or disabled
veteran, or the family member or other representative of such member or
veteran, may contact the operations center maintained under subsection (b) and
request the expedited passenger screening services described in subsection (a)
for that member or veteran; and
(2)upon receipt of a request under paragraph
(1), require the operations center to notify the appropriate Federal Security
Director of the request for expedited passenger screening services, as
described in subsection (a), for that member or veteran.
(d)The
Assistant Secretary shall integrate training on the protocols established under
subsection (c) into the training provided to all employees who will regularly
provide the passenger screening services described in subsection (a).
(e)Nothing in this section shall affect the authority
of the Assistant Secretary to require additional screening of a severely
injured or disabled member of the Armed Forces, a severely injured or disabled
veteran, or their accompanying family members or nonmedical attendants, if
intelligence, law enforcement, or other information indicates that additional
screening is necessary.
(f)Not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, and annually
thereafter, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the
implementation of this section. Each report shall include each of the
following:
(1)Information on the
training provided under subsection (d).
(2)Information on the consultations between
the Assistant Secretary and the organizations identified under subsection
(a).
(3)The
number of people who accessed the operations center during the period covered
by the report.
(4)Such other
information as the Assistant Secretary determines is
appropriate.
.
(b)The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter I
of chapter 449 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting after
the item relating to section 44926 the following new item:
44927. Expedited screening for severely
injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or
disabled
veterans.
.
Secretary