Strengthening Oversight of TSA Employee Misconduct Act
Latest action · Jul 17, 2017 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 161.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 2, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Strengthening Oversight of TSA Employee Misconduct Act
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate a senior official:
- implement a plan to oversee unannounced inspections at airports of agency actions taken to address TSA employee misconduct, including corrective actions by airport managers and employee removal from federal service;
- certify to the TSA, on a biannual basis until September 30, 2023, that such unannounced inspections were completed across a sufficient number of airports;
- review the results of such inspections to identify causes of any variances and overall trends in actions taken in response to employee misconduct and to develop corrective actions and recommendations;
- implement the corrective actions and any recommendations; and
- provide the results of such inspections to DHS.
Unannounced inspections of certain locations may be consolidated and coordinated with other TSA offices. TSA may extend the time for completing such inspections for up to an additional fiscal year if exigent circumstances warrant.
DHS may review such results to identify trends and make recommendations to the TSA to address employee misconduct. The TSA shall implement such recommendations.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 2, 2017.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Mar 2, 2017 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Mar 2, 2017Markup May 3, 2017Reported Jul 17, 2017 |
| Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee | Referred Mar 22, 2017Discharged May 3, 2017 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2017Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 115-226.
- Jul 17, 2017Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 161.
- May 3, 2017Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security Discharged.
- May 3, 2017Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 3, 2017Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 14 - 10.
- Mar 22, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security.
- Mar 2, 2017Introduced in House
- Mar 2, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jul 17, 2017H.R. 1351, Strengthening Oversight of TSA Employee Misconduct ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 3, 2017
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 37, March 2, 2017, page H1532.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to make certain improvements in managing TSA's employee misconduct, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Strengthening Oversight of TSA Employee Misconduct Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Strengthening Oversight of TSA Employee Misconduct Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Aviation and airports
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Homeland Security
- Employee performance
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government studies and investigations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation safety and security
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2017Reported in House
- Mar 2, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
