H.R. 9388
One-Stop Pilot Program Extension Act
Sponsor: Carlos A. Gimenez
1 cosponsor
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
One-Stop Pilot Program Extension Act
This bill revises and extends the One Stop Security program of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Under this pilot program, eligible passengers and their checked baggage arriving in the United States from certain foreign airports with connecting flights may be eligible to continue without additional TSA security re-screening.
The bill extends the pilot program through December 23, 2032, from the current December 23, 2028.
The bill also revises the security requirements for excluding checked baggage from additional TSA security re-screening. Among other things, the bill specifies that a passenger must be unable to access their checked baggage until arrival at their final destination and that U.S. Customs and Border Protection must have received timely images of the baggage from the participating foreign airport prior to a passenger’s arrival in the United States.
Text of the bill
(a) Checked baggage re-Screening. Subsection (d) of section 7132 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117–263; 49 U.S.C. 44901 note) is amended to read as follows:
(d) Re-Screening of checked baggage. Subject to subsection (f), the Administrator, in coordination with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), may permit checked baggage arriving on direct flights or flight segments arriving from participating foreign last point of departure airports referred to in subsection (b) to continue on additional flights or flight segments originating in the United States without additional TSA security re-screening if the following requirements are satisfied:
(1) The initial checked baggage screening at such an airport was conducted using an explosives detection system in accordance with an aviation security screening agreement described in subsection (e).
(2) Passengers arriving from such airports are unable to access their checked baggage until arrival at their final destination.
(3) CBP has received timely images of such baggage prior to the arrival in the United States of such passengers and baggage that satisfy CBP requirements from such an airport corresponding to the checked baggage of such passengers to ensure appropriate border security enforcement can be completed in an efficient manner.
(4) CBP has not identified any such passenger or baggage for further inspection.
(b) Extension. Subsection (k) of section 7132 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 is amended by striking six and inserting ten.