[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5729 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5729

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 An Act


 
 To restrict the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from 
    implementing any rule requiring the use of biometric readers for 
   biometric transportation security cards until after submission to 
  Congress of the results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the 
                  transportation security card program.

    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 ``Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential Accountability Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSPORTATION WORKER 
IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL BIOMETRIC READER RULE.
    The department in which the Coast Guard is operating may not 
implement the rule entitled ``Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential (TWIC)-Reader Requirements'' (81 Fed. Reg. 57651), and may 
not propose or issue a notice of proposed rulemaking for any revision 
to such rule except to extend its effective date, or for any other rule 
requiring the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation 
security cards under section 70105(k)(3) of title 46, United States 
Code, before the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of the 
submission under paragraph (5) of section 1(b) of Public Law 114-278 
(130 Stat. 1411 to 1412) of the results of the assessment required by 
that section.
SEC. 3. PROGRESS UPDATES.
    Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and every 90 days thereafter until the submission under paragraph (5) 
of section 1(b) of Public Law 114-278 (130 Stat. 1411 et seq.) of the 
results of the assessment required by that section, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall report to the Committee on Homeland Security 
and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate regarding the implementation of that 
section.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.