Sec. 6415. PLAN TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS AT PASSENGER SCREENING CHECKPOINTS
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## SEC. 6415 PLAN TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS AT PASSENGER SCREENING CHECKPOINTS **[**[49 U.S.C. 44901 note](/us/usc/t49/s44901)**]** ###
(a)In General Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall issue and commence implementing a plan to enhance, as appropriate, security operations at airports during the COVID-19 national emergency in order to reduce risk of the spread of the coronavirus at passenger screening checkpoints and among the TSA workforce. ###
(b)Contents The plan required under subsection
(a)shall include the following: ####
(1)An identification of best practices developed and screening technologies deployed in response to the coronavirus among foreign governments, airports, and air carriers conducting aviation security screening operations, as well as among Federal agencies conducting similar security screening operations outside of airports, including in locations where the spread of the coronavirus has been successfully contained, that could be further integrated into the United States aviation security system. ####
(2)Specific operational changes to aviation security screening operations informed by the identification of best practices and screening technologies under paragraph
(1)that could be implemented without degrading aviation security and a corresponding timeline and costs for implementing such changes. ###
(c)Considerations In carrying out the identification of best practices under subsection (b), the Administrator shall take into consideration the following: ####
(1)Aviation security screening procedures and practices in place at security screening locations, including procedures and practices implemented in response to the coronavirus. ####
(2)Volume and average wait times at each such security screening location. ####
(3)Public health measures already in place at each such security screening location. ####
(4)The feasibility and effectiveness of implementing similar procedures and practices in locations where such are not already in place. ####
(5)The feasibility and potential benefits to security, public health, and travel facilitation of continuing any procedures and practices implemented in response to the COVID-19 national emergency beyond the end of such emergency. ###
(d)Consultation In developing the plan required under subsection (a), the Administrator may consult with public and private stakeholders and the TSA workforce, including through the labor organization certified as the exclusive representative of full- and part-time nonsupervisory TSA personnel carrying out screening functions under section 44901 of title 49, United States Code. ###
(e)Submission Upon issuance of the plan required under subsection (a), the Administrator shall submit the plan to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. ###
(f)Issuance and Implementation The Administrator shall not be required to issue or implement, as the case may be, the plan required under subsection
(a)upon the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency except to the extent the Administrator determines such issuance or implementation, as the case may be, to be feasible and beneficial to security screening operations. ###
(g)GAO Review Not later than one year after the issuance of the plan required under subsection
(a)(if such plan is issued in accordance with subsection (f)), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a review, if appropriate, of such plan and any efforts to implement such plan. ###
(h)Definitions In this section: ####
(1)The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. ####
(2)The term “coronavirus” has the meaning given such term in section 506 of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-123). ####
(3)The term “COVID-19 national emergency” means the national emergency declared by the President under the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) on March 13, 2020, with respect to the coronavirus. ####
(4)The term “public and private stakeholders” has the meaning given such term in section 114(t)(1)(C) of title 49, United States Code. ####
(5)The term “TSA” means the Transportation Security Administration.
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PLAN TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS AT PASSENGER SCREENING CHECKPOINTS
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