Sec. 513. Identity and travel document verification
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Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: Not later than December 31, 2018, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, implement an identity and travel document verification system designed to establish a secure, automated system at all airports for verifying identity and travel documents of persons seeking entry into the sterile area of an airport.
Such system shall— assess the need for security screening personnel to perform identity and travel document verification for such passengers, thereby assessing the overall number of such screening personnel; reduce the average wait time of such passengers; reduce overall operating expenses of the Administration; be integrated with the Administration’s watch list matching program; and be integrated with other technologies to further facilitate risk-based passenger screening at checkpoints, to the extent practicable and consistent with security standards. .