[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1344 Engrossed Amendment Senate (EAS)]

                  In the Senate of the United States,

                                                        August 1, 2013.
    Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 
1344) entitled ``An Act to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation 
Security Administration) to provide expedited air passenger screening 
to severely injured or disabled members of the Armed Forces and 
severely injured or disabled veterans, and for other purposes.'', do 
pass with the following

                               AMENDMENT:

            Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
      following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Helping Heroes Fly Act''.

SEC. 2. OPERATIONS CENTER PROGRAM FOR SEVERELY INJURED OR DISABLED 
              MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SEVERELY INJURED OR 
              DISABLED VETERANS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 44927. Expedited screening for severely injured or disabled 
              members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or 
              disabled veterans
    ``(a) Passenger Screening.--The Assistant Secretary, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs, and organizations identified by the Secretaries of Defense and 
Veteran Affairs that advocate on behalf of severely injured or disabled 
members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans, 
shall develop and implement a process to support and facilitate the 
ease of travel and to the extent possible provide expedited passenger 
screening services for severely injured or disabled members of the 
Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled veterans through 
passenger screening. The process shall be designed to offer the 
individual private screening to the maximum extent practicable.
    ``(b) Operations Center.--As part of the process under subsection 
(a), the Assistant Secretary shall maintain an operations center to 
provide support and facilitate the movement of severely injured or 
disabled members of the Armed Forces and severely injured or disabled 
veterans through passenger screening prior to boarding a passenger 
aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier in air 
transportation or intrastate air transportation.
    ``(c) Protocols.--The Assistant Secretary shall--
            ``(1) establish and publish protocols, in consultation with 
        the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 
        and the organizations identified under subsection (a), under 
        which a severely injured or disabled member of the Armed Forces 
        or severely injured or disabled veteran, or the family member 
        or other representative of such member or veteran, may contact 
        the operations center maintained under subsection (b) and 
        request the expedited passenger screening services described in 
        subsection (a) for that member or veteran; and
            ``(2) upon receipt of a request under paragraph (1), 
        require the operations center to notify the appropriate Federal 
        Security Director of the request for expedited passenger 
        screening services, as described in subsection (a), for that 
        member or veteran.
    ``(d) Training.--The Assistant Secretary shall integrate training 
on the protocols established under subsection (c) into the training 
provided to all employees who will regularly provide the passenger 
screening services described in subsection (a).
    ``(e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall affect 
the authority of the Assistant Secretary to require additional 
screening of a severely injured or disabled member of the Armed Forces, 
a severely injured or disabled veteran, or their accompanying family 
members or nonmedical attendants, if intelligence, law enforcement, or 
other information indicates that additional screening is necessary.
    ``(f) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this section, and annually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary shall 
submit to Congress a report on the implementation of this section. Each 
report shall include each of the following:
            ``(1) Information on the training provided under subsection 
        (d).
            ``(2) Information on the consultations between the 
        Assistant Secretary and the organizations identified under 
        subsection (a).
            ``(3) The number of people who accessed the operations 
        center during the period covered by the report.
            ``(4) Such other information as the Assistant Secretary 
        determines is appropriate.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 44926 the following new 
item:

``44927. Expedited screening for severely injured or disabled members 
                            of the Armed Forces and severely injured or 
                            disabled veterans.''.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
113th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H.R. 1344

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