[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 54 (Monday, April 11, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1873-S1874]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3632. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. Cantwell) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3464 submitted by Mr. 
Thune (for himself and Mr. Nelson) to the bill H.R. 636, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing 
limitations, and for other purposes; which

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was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROMOTION OF EXIT LANE BREACH CONTROL TECHNOLOGY.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the 
     Transportation Security Administration.
       (2) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Administration.
       (3) Exit lane breach control technology.--The term ``exit 
     lane breach control technology'' refers to any automated 
     system, or series of systems, designed to monitor exit points 
     from an airport sterile area.
       (4) Sterile area.--The term ``sterile area'' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code 
     of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar 
     regulation or ruling)
       (b) Standards and Requirements.--
       (1) Initial requirement.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall 
     develop standards and requirements for the use of exit lane 
     breach control technology at airports.
       (2) Qualified product list.--The Administrator shall 
     establish, publically post, and maintain a qualified product 
     list of exit land breach control technology that shall 
     includes all previously-approved systems.
       (c) Benefits for Airports Using Exit Lane Breach Control 
     Technology.--
       (1) Eligibility for benefits.--If an airport deploys, on a 
     nonreimbursable basis, exit lane breach control technology 
     that satisfies the standards and requirements developed under 
     subsection (b) and the deployment results in the need for 
     fewer employees of the Administration to monitor exit points 
     from an airport sterile area, the airport's Federal security 
     director may reallocate such employees to other 
     transportation security missions, including passenger 
     screening, within that airport if the Administrator certifies 
     that the reallocation will not negatively impact the security 
     of that airport.
       (2) No loss of administration employees.--
       (A) In general.--The Administrator may not decrease, under 
     the Staffing Allocation Model, any successor allocation 
     process, or any other circumstances, the number of employees 
     of the Administration assigned to an airport that deploys, on 
     a nonreimbursable basis, exit lane breach control technology 
     that satisfies the standards and requirements developed under 
     subsection (b) on the basis that the deployment results in 
     the need for fewer such employees to provide security for 
     sterile areas of the airport.
       (B) Minimum staffing levels.--Subject to subparagraph (C), 
     if an airport is eligible for the Administrator to reallocate 
     employees under paragraph (1), the Administrator--
       (i) shall determine the minimum number of full-time 
     equivalent employees of the Administration required for that 
     airport prior to the deployment of the exit lane breach 
     control technology; and
       (ii) may not allocate a number of employees of the 
     Administration for that airport for any year that is less 
     than such minimum number.
       (C) Waiver of minimum staffing levels.--If the 
     Administrator has determined a minimum number of full-time 
     equivalent employees of the Administration required for an 
     airport under subparagraph (B)(i), the Administrator may only 
     allocate a number of employees of the Administration for that 
     airport that is less than such minimum number if the total 
     passenger count for that airport in any 6-month period 
     declines more than 5 percent compared to the same 6-month 
     period during the preceding calendar year.
       (D) Notification to congress.--The Administrator shall 
     notify the appropriate committees of Congress, the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
     and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives not less than 45 days prior to making an 
     allocation authorized under subparagraph (C).
       (d) Responsibility for Monitoring Passenger Exit Points.--
     If an airport is eligible for the Administrator to reallocate 
     employees under subsection (c)(1), the Administrator shall 
     have met the responsibility of the Administration to monitor 
     passenger exit points required by subsection (n) of section 
     44903 of title 49, United States Code.
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