HR 1813 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

FASTER Act

Introduced Mar 11, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Peter A. DeFazio D-OR

Latest action · Mar 12, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.

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 11, 2021
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act

This bill repeals the requirement that a portion of aviation security service fees collected from passengers be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. It requires such fees to be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury for expenditure to pay only the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed (i.e., aviation security screening).

Cosponsors 100

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 11, 2021 to Dec 22, 2022; 33 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NH	Chris Pappas	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-PA	Conor Lamb	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-FL	Darren Soto	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-MN	Dean Phillips	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Jerry McNerney	Original	Mar 11, 2021
R-NY	John Katko	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal	Original	Mar 11, 2021
R-IL	Rodney Davis	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-FL	Val Butler Demings	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Mar 18, 2021
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Mar 18, 2021
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Mar 18, 2021
D-IL	Marie Newman		Mar 18, 2021
D-CA	Mike Levin		Mar 18, 2021
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Apr 14, 2021
D-CO	Jason Crow		Apr 14, 2021
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Apr 14, 2021
D-CA	Josh Harder		Jun 22, 2021
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 6, 2021
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Jul 13, 2021
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jul 16, 2021
D-NC	Deborah K. Ross		Jul 19, 2021
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jul 22, 2021
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 22, 2021
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jul 22, 2021
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 22, 2021
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jul 27, 2021
D-MD	David J. Trone		Aug 24, 2021
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Aug 24, 2021
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Aug 31, 2021
D-PA	Susan Wild		Aug 31, 2021
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Aug 31, 2021
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Sep 3, 2021
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Sep 3, 2021
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Sep 3, 2021
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 3, 2021
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez		Sep 7, 2021
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Sep 21, 2021
R-NE	Don Bacon		Sep 21, 2021
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Sep 21, 2021
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Sep 21, 2021
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Sep 24, 2021
D-NM	Melanie A. Stansbury		Sep 29, 2021
R-NY	Andrew R. Garbarino		Oct 15, 2021
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew		Oct 15, 2021
D-NY	Mondaire Jones		Oct 15, 2021
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Oct 15, 2021
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Oct 21, 2021
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Oct 21, 2021
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Oct 26, 2021
D-NY	Grace Meng		Oct 26, 2021
R-FL	Byron Donalds		Nov 2, 2021
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Nov 2, 2021
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Nov 2, 2021
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Nov 9, 2021
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Nov 9, 2021
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Dec 8, 2021
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Dec 8, 2021
D-WA	Marilyn Strickland		Dec 8, 2021
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Dec 14, 2021
R-IA	Mariannette Miller-Meeks		Dec 14, 2021
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Dec 16, 2021
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jan 6, 2022
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jan 6, 2022
R-NY	Nicole Malliotakis		Jan 6, 2022
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jan 19, 2022
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Jan 19, 2022
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Feb 3, 2022
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Feb 3, 2022
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Feb 8, 2022
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Feb 9, 2022
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Mar 30, 2022
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Mar 31, 2022
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Mar 31, 2022
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Apr 21, 2022
D-GA	Nikema Williams		Dec 22, 2022

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 11, 2021
	Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee	Referred Mar 12, 2021

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 12, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.
Mar 11, 2021Introduced in House
Mar 11, 2021Referred 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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in Congress)

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 46, March 11, 2021, page H1357.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 117-44	CONCEALED CARRY-ONS: CONFRONTING THE SURGE IN FIREARMS AT TSA CHECKPOINTS38 pages	Homeland Security Committee	Feb 15, 2022

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1171	FASTER Act	Reintroduction of	Mar 4, 2019
S 2717	FASTER Act	Identical bill	Sep 13, 2021

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 ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: FASTER Act; Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 11, 2021Introduced in House

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