[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3416 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3416

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that individuals 
   seeking training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked 
  against the terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are 
            non-threats to aviation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2015

 Mr. Thompson of Mississippi 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 require that individuals 
   seeking training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked 
  against the terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are 
            non-threats to aviation, 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 ``Flight School Security Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS SEEKING FLIGHT TRAINING ARE 
              CHECKED AGAINST THE TERRORIST WATCHLIST.

    (a) In General.--Section 44939 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading by striking ``Waiting 
                Period.--'' and inserting ``Requirements; Waiting 
                Period.--'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 
                subparagraphs (A) through (F) as clauses (i) through 
                (vi), respectively, and moving such clauses two ems to 
                the right;
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and moving 
                such subparagraphs two ems to the right;
                    (D) by striking ``12,500 pounds'' and inserting 
                ``12,500 pounds--'';
                    (E) by inserting before subparagraph (A), as 
                redesignated by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, a 
                new paragraph (2);
                    (F) by moving the text beginning with ``to an 
                alien'' and all that follows through ``only if--'' to 
                such new paragraph (2);
                    (G) by inserting before such new paragraph (2) the 
                following new paragraph (1):
            ``(1) to an individual seeking such training who does not 
        hold a valid airman's certification issued by the Federal 
        Aviation Administration only upon receipt of information from 
        the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration 
        that--
                    ``(A) the individual has been checked against the 
                terrorist watchlist to ascertain if the individual may 
                pose a threat to aviation or national security or a 
                threat of terrorism; and
                    ``(B) the Administrator has determined that the 
                individual does not pose a threat that warrants denial 
                of access to such training; and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Annual Report.--Not later than March 1 of each year, the 
Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall 
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate a report on the total number of individuals checked against 
the terrorist watchlist and total number of individuals denied access 
to flight training during the calendar year preceding the year in which 
each such report is submitted, in accordance with this section.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of 
subsection (a) of section 44939 of title 49, United States Code, as 
redesignated by subsection (a) of this section, is amended by striking 
``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A)''.
    (c) Technical Changes.--Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (i) of 
section 44939 of title 49, United State Code, is amended by inserting 
``the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, on 
behalf of'' before ``the Secretary''.
    (d) Clerical Amendment.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall apply with respect to an individual seeking flight training on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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