[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1510 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1510

To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit a pat down search of 
 minor for purposes of air transportation security without the consent 
     and presence of a parent of the minor, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2011

 Mr. Chaffetz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit a pat down search of 
 minor for purposes of air transportation security without the consent 
     and presence of a parent of the minor, 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 ``TSA Screening of Minors Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PAT DOWN SEARCHES OF MINORS WITHOUT THE CONSENT 
              AND PRESENCE OF PARENT.

    Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking so much as precedes the first sentence and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(b) Screening of Passengers.--
            ``(1) Supervision of screening.--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Screening of minors.--
                    ``(A) Prohibition.--A screening of a passenger who 
                is a minor may not include a pat down search of the 
                passenger unless such search--
                            ``(i) is conducted with the consent, and in 
                        the presence, of a parent of the minor; or
                            ``(ii) in the case of a minor who is not 
                        accompanied by a parent, is conducted in the 
                        presence of a representative of the air carrier 
                        or foreign air carrier undertaking to provide 
                        air transportation or foreign air 
                        transportation, respectively, for which the 
                        search is conducted.
                    ``(B) Parent defined.--In this paragraph the term 
                `parent' includes a person who is authorized to act in 
                loco parentis for purposes of providing consent with 
                respect to a pat down search under this section.''.
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