Sec. 6414. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PREPAREDNESS

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## SEC. 6414 TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PREPAREDNESS ###

(a)Analysis ####

(1)In general The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall conduct an analysis of preparedness of the transportation security system of the United States for public health threats. Such analysis shall assess, at a minimum, the following: #####

(A)The risks of public health threats to the transportation security system of the United States, including to transportation hubs, transportation security stakeholders, Transportation Security Administration

(TSA)personnel, and passengers. #####

(B)Information sharing challenges among relevant components of the Department of Homeland Security, other Federal agencies, international entities, and transportation security stakeholders. #####

(C)Impacts to TSA policies and procedures for securing the transportation security system. ####

(2)Coordination The analysis conducted of the risks described in paragraph (1)(A) shall be conducted in coordination with the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and transportation security stakeholders. ###

(b)Briefing Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall brief the appropriate congressional committees on the following: ####

(1)The analysis required under subsection (a). ####

(2)Technologies necessary to combat public health threats at security screening checkpoints, such as testing and screening technologies, including temperature screenings, to better protect from future public health threats TSA personnel, passengers, aviation workers, and other personnel authorized to access the sterile area of an airport through such checkpoints, and the estimated cost of technology investments needed to fully implement across the aviation system solutions to such threats. ####

(3)Policies and procedures implemented by TSA and transportation security stakeholders to protect from public health threats TSA personnel, passengers, aviation workers, and other personnel authorized to access the sterile area through the security screening checkpoints, as well as future plans for additional measures relating to such protection. ####

(4)The role of TSA in establishing priorities, developing solutions, and coordinating and sharing information with relevant domestic and international entities during a public health threat to the transportation security system, and how TSA can improve its leadership role in such areas. ###

(c)Definitions In this section: ####

(1)The term “appropriate congressional committees” means— #####

(A)the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives; and #####

(B)the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. ####

(2)The term “sterile area” has the meaning given such term in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations. ####

(3)The term “TSA” means the Transportation Security Administration.