[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2288 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2288

To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a civil penalty for 
 failure of certain employers to collect or make reasonable efforts to 
   collect an airport security badge from an employee on the date of 
           termination of employment, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2007

Mr. Kirk (for himself and Mr. Lipinski) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a civil penalty for 
 failure of certain employers to collect or make reasonable efforts to 
   collect an airport security badge from an employee on the date of 
           termination of employment, and for other purposes.

    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 Badge Security Act''.

SEC. 2. FAILURE TO COLLECT AIRPORT SECURITY BADGES.

    Section 46301(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Failure to collect airport security badges.--
        Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any employer (other than a 
        governmental entity or airport operator) who employs an 
        employee to whom an airport security badge or other identifier 
        used to obtain access to a secure area of an airport is issued 
        before, on, or after the date of enactment of this paragraph 
        and who does not collect or make reasonable efforts to collect 
        such badge from the employee on the date that the employment of 
        the employee is terminated and does not notify the operator of 
        the airport of such termination within 24 hours of the date of 
        such termination shall be liable to the Government for a civil 
        penalty not to exceed $10,000.''.
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