[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1794 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1794

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the unauthorized 
       circumvention of airport security systems and procedures.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 10, 2001

  Mr. Cleland introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the unauthorized 
       circumvention of airport security systems and procedures.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Airport Checkpoint Enhancement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON UNAUTHORIZED CIRCUMVENTION OF AIRPORT SECURITY 
              SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 46503 of title 49, United States Code, as 
added by section 114 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act 
(Public Law 107-71), is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) Interference With Security Screening 
        Personnel.--'' before ``An individual''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Unauthorized Circumvention of Security Systems and 
Procedures.--An individual in an area within a commercial service 
airport in the United States who intentionally circumvents, in an 
unauthorized manner, a security system or procedure in the airport 
shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, 
or both.''.
    (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.--(1) The section heading of 
that section is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 46503. Interference with security screening personnel; 
              unauthorized circumvention of security systems or 
              procedures''.
    (2) The item relating to that section in the table of sections at 
the beginning of chapter 465 of that title is amended to read as 
follows:

``46503. Interference with security screening personnel; unauthorized 
                            circumvention of security systems or 
                            procedures.''.
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