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This bill requires the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to study and implement better screening for TSA's 900,000 employees following attempts by TSA employees to detonate a bomb at an airport, gun and drug smuggling, and employees who became involved in terrorist activities overseas. The new screening would include creating a national database of employees who have had either their airport or aircraft operator-issued badge revoked for failure to comply with aviation security requirements.
Sponsor. Representative for New York's 24th congressional district. Republican.
Read Text »This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on April 25, 2017 but was never passed by the Senate.
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Cosponsors8 Cosponsors (5 Republicans, 3 Democrats)
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Apr 25, 2017 Passed House (Senate next)The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next.
Apr 25, 2017 Reported by House Committee on Homeland SecurityA committee issued a report on the bill, which often provides helpful explanatory background on the issue addressed by the bill and the bill's intentions.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 876. This is the one from the 115 th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 115 th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 3, 2019. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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