[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4306]
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  SA 2113. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mr. Moran) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. ESTABLISHMENT OF AVIATION SECURITY CHECKPOINT 
                   TECHNOLOGY FUND.

       (a) In General.--Section 44923 of title 49, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(i) Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund.--
       ``(1) In general.--There is established within the 
     Department of Homeland Security a fund to be known as the 
     Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund (in this 
     subsection referred to as the `ASCT Fund'). The second 
     $250,000,000 from fees received under section 44940(a)(1) in 
     each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 shall be available to 
     be deposited in the ASCT Fund. The Administrator of the 
     Transportation Security Administration shall impose the fee 
     authorized by section 44940(a)(1) so as to collect not less 
     than $250,000,000 in each of such fiscal years for deposit 
     into the ASCT Fund. Amounts in the ASCT Fund shall be 
     available until expended to the Administrator of the 
     Transportation Security Administration to fund the 
     procurement, test, deployment, and post-deployment 
     enhancements of aviation security checkpoint technology.
       ``(2) TSA briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this subsection and quarterly thereafter 
     for 5 years, the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
     Administration shall brief the Committee on Homeland Security 
     and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate regarding planned procurement, test, deployment, and 
     post-deployment enhancement efforts of aviation security 
     checkpoint technology at airport checkpoints through amounts 
     made available from the ASCT Fund.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 44940(i)(1) of title 49, 
     United States Code, is amended by striking ``section 
     44923(h)'' and inserting ``subsections (h) and (i) of section 
     44923''.
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