[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15955-15956]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NO-HASSLE FLYING ACT OF 2012

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Commerce 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 3542 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3542) to authorize the Assistant Secretary of 
     Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to 
     modify screening requirements for checked baggage arriving 
     from preclearance airports, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask that the Klobuchar amendment which is 
at the desk be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time 
and passed; the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon 
the table, with no intervening action or debate; and that any 
statements relating to the measure be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3286) was agreed to, as follows:

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                           AMENDMENT NO. 3286

      (Purpose: To include the Committee on Homeland Security and 
   Governmental Affairs of the Senate in the committees to which the 
     report on re-screening of baggage is required to be submitted)

       On page 3, lines 8 through 10, strike ``and the Committee 
     on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate'' and 
     insert ``, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate''.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read 
the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 3542

       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 ``No-Hassle Flying Act of 
     2012''.

     SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 44901(d) of title 49, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(4) Preclearance airports.--
       ``(A) In general.--For a flight or flight segment 
     originating at an airport outside the United States and 
     traveling to the United States with respect to which checked 
     baggage has been screened in accordance with an aviation 
     security preclearance agreement between the United States and 
     the country in which such airport is located, the Assistant 
     Secretary (Transportation Security Administration) may, in 
     coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
     determine whether such baggage must be re-screened in the 
     United States by an explosives detection system before such 
     baggage continues on any additional flight or flight segment.
       ``(B) Aviation security preclearance agreement defined.--In 
     this paragraph, the term `aviation security preclearance 
     agreement' means an agreement that delineates and implements 
     security standards and protocols that are determined by the 
     Assistant Secretary, in coordination with U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection, to be comparable to those of the United 
     States and therefore sufficiently effective to enable 
     passengers to deplane into sterile areas of airports in the 
     United States.
       ``(C) Report.--The Assistant Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an annual 
     report on the re-screening of baggage under this paragraph. 
     Each such report shall include the following for the year 
     covered by the report:
       ``(i) A list of airports outside the United States from 
     which a flight or flight segment traveled to the United 
     States for which the Assistant Secretary determined, in 
     accordance with the authority under subparagraph (A), that 
     checked baggage was not required to be re-screened in the 
     United States by an explosive detection system before such 
     baggage continued on an additional flight or flight segment.
       ``(ii) The amount of Federal savings generated from the 
     exercise of such authority.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 44901 of title 49, 
     United States Code, is amended by striking ``explosive'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``explosives''.

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