[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3542 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3542

       To authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
     (Transportation Security Administration) to modify screening 
 requirements for checked baggage arriving from preclearance airports, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 13, 2012

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Blunt) 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 authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
     (Transportation Security Administration) to modify screening 
 requirements for checked baggage arriving from preclearance airports, 
                        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 ``No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 44901(d) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Preclearance airports.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For a flight or flight segment 
                originating at an airport outside the United States and 
                traveling to the United States with respect to which 
                checked baggage has been screened in accordance with an 
                aviation security preclearance agreement between the 
                United States and the country in which such airport is 
                located, the Assistant Secretary (Transportation 
                Security Administration) may, in coordination with U.S. 
                Customs and Border Protection, determine whether such 
                baggage must be re-screened in the United States by an 
                explosives detection system before such baggage 
                continues on any additional flight or flight segment.
                    ``(B) Aviation security preclearance agreement 
                defined.--In this paragraph, the term `aviation 
                security preclearance agreement' means an agreement 
                that delineates and implements security standards and 
                protocols that are determined by the Assistant 
                Secretary, in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border 
                Protection, to be comparable to those of the United 
                States and therefore sufficiently effective to enable 
                passengers to deplane into sterile areas of airports in 
                the United States.
                    ``(C) Report.--The Assistant Secretary shall submit 
                to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                and Transportation of the Senate an annual report on 
                the re-screening of baggage under this paragraph. Each 
                such report shall include the following for the year 
                covered by the report:
                            ``(i) A list of airports outside the United 
                        States from which a flight or flight segment 
                        traveled to the United States for which the 
                        Assistant Secretary determined, in accordance 
                        with the authority under subparagraph (A), that 
                        checked baggage was not required to be re-
                        screened in the United States by an explosive 
                        detection system before such baggage continued 
                        on an additional flight or flight segment.
                            ``(ii) The amount of Federal savings 
                        generated from the exercise of such 
                        authority.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 44901 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``explosive'' each place it appears 
and inserting ``explosives''.
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