[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1042 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1042

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
 issue regulations to require individuals conducting weapon screenings 
of passengers in air transportation to notify law enforcement officers 
of discoveries of controlled substances and/or sums of money in excess 
      of $10,000 in accordance with applicable Federal guidelines.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 1993

  Mrs. Byrne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
 issue regulations to require individuals conducting weapon screenings 
of passengers in air transportation to notify law enforcement officers 
of discoveries of controlled substances and/or sums of money in excess 
      of $10,000 in accordance with applicable Federal guidelines.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1.  NOTIFICATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OF DISCOVERIES OF 
              CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AND/OR LARGE SUMS OF CASH IN EXCESS 
              OF $10,000 IN WEAPON SCREENING.

    Section 315 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. App. 
1356) is amended by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d) and 
by adding after subsection (b) the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Discoveries of Controlled Substances and/or Cash in Excess of 
$10,000.--Not later than ninety days after the date of the enactment of 
this subsection, the Administrator shall issue regulations requiring 
employees and agents referred to in subsection (a) to report to 
appropriate Federal and State law enforcement officers any incident in 
which the employee or agent, in the course of conducting screening 
procedures pursuant to subsection (a), discovers a controlled substance 
the possession of which may be a violation of Federal or State law, 
and/or any sizable sums of cash in excess of $10,000 the possession of 
which may be a violation of Federal or State Law.''.

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