    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 115-230
    115th Congress

    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.

    Approved August 2, 2018.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5729:
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    HOUSE REPORTS: No. 115-790, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Homeland Security).
    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 164 (2018):
    July 10, considered and passed House.
    July 26, considered and passed Senate.