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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 2086
To enhance the security operations of the Transportation Security Administra-
tion and stability of the transportation security workforce by applying
the personnel system under title 5, United States Code, to employees
of the Transportation Security Administration, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH11, 2025
Mr. T
HOMPSONof Mississippi (for himself, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. DELAURO,
Mrs. M
CIVER, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. KENNEDYof New York, Mr.
B
ACON, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. VANDREW, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr.
L
ALOTA, and Mr. LAWLER) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To enhance the security operations of the Transportation
Security Administration and stability of the transpor-
tation security workforce by applying the personnel sys-
tem under title 5, United States Code, to employees
of the Transportation Security Administration, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rights for the Trans-2
portation Security Administration Workforce Act’’ or the 3
‘‘Rights for the TSA Workforce Act’’. 4
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 5
In this Act— 6
(1) the term ‘‘2022 Determination’’ means the 7
publication, entitled ‘‘Determination on Transpor-8
tation Security Officers and Collective Bargaining’’, 9
issued on December 30, 2022, by Administrator 10
David P. Pekoske, as modified, or any superseding 11
subsequent determination; 12
(2) the term ‘‘adjusted basic pay’’ means— 13
(A) the rate of pay fixed by law or admin-14
istrative action for a position occupied by a cov-15
ered employee before any deductions; and 16
(B) any regular, fixed supplemental pay-17
ment for non-overtime hours of work creditable 18
as basic pay for retirement purposes, including 19
any applicable locality payment and any special 20
rate supplement; 21
(3) the term ‘‘Administration’’ means the 22
Transportation Security Administration; 23
(4) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-24
ministrator of the Administration; 25
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(5) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-1
mittees’’ means— 2
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 3
and Transportation of the Senate; 4
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 5
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 6
(C) the Committee on Homeland Security 7
of the House of Representatives; and 8
(D) the Committee on Oversight and Gov-9
ernment Reform of the House of Representa-10
tives; 11
(6) the term ‘‘conversion date’’ means the date 12
on which subparagraphs (A) through (F) of section 13
3(c)(1) take effect; 14
(7) the term ‘‘covered employee’’ means an em-15
ployee who occupies a covered position; 16
(8) the term ‘‘covered position’’ means a posi-17
tion within the Administration; 18
(9) the term ‘‘employee’’ has the meaning given 19
the term in section 2105 of title 5, United States 20
Code; 21
(10) the term ‘‘screening agent’’ means a full- 22
or part-time non-supervisory covered employee car-23
rying out screening functions under section 44901 of 24
title 49, United States Code; 25
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(11) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 1
of Homeland Security; and 2
(12) the term ‘‘TSA personnel management 3
system’’ means any personnel management system 4
established or modified under— 5
(A) section 111(d) of the Aviation and 6
Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 7
note); or 8
(B) section 114(n) of title 49, United 9
States Code. 10
SEC. 3. CONVERSION OF TSA PERSONNEL. 11
(a) R
ESTRICTIONS ON CERTAINPERSONNELAU-12
THORITIES.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 14
provision of law, effective as of the date of enact-15
ment of this Act— 16
(A) any TSA personnel management sys-17
tem in use for covered employees and covered 18
positions on the day before that date of enact-19
ment, and any personnel management policy, 20
letter, guideline, or directive of the Administra-21
tion in effect on that day, may not be modified; 22
(B) no personnel management policy, let-23
ter, guideline, or directive of the Administration 24
that was not established before that date issued 25
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pursuant to section 111(d) of the Aviation and 1
Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 2
note) or section 114(n) of title 49, United 3
States Code, may be established; and 4
(C) any authority to establish or adjust a 5
human resources management system under 6
chapter 97 of title 5, United States Code, shall 7
terminate with respect to covered employees 8
and covered positions. 9
(2) E
XCEPTIONS.— 10
(A) P
AY.—Notwithstanding paragraph 11
(1)(A), the limitation in that paragraph shall 12
not apply to any personnel management policy, 13
letter, guideline, or directive of the Administra-14
tion relating to annual adjustments to pay 15
schedules and locality-based comparability pay-16
ments in order to maintain parity with those 17
adjustments authorized under sections 5303, 18
5304, 5304a, and 5318 of title 5, United States 19
Code; and 20
(B) A
DDITIONAL POLICY .—Notwith-21
standing paragraph (1)(B), new personnel man-22
agement policy of the Administration may be 23
issued if— 24
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(i) that policy is needed to resolve a 1
matter not specifically addressed in policy 2
in effect on that date of enactment; and 3
(ii) the Secretary provides that policy, 4
with an explanation of the necessity of that 5
policy, to the appropriate congressional 6
committees not later than 7 days after the 7
date on which the policy is issued. 8
(C) E
MERGING THREATS TO TRANSPOR -9
TATION SECURITY DURING TRANSITION PE -10
RIOD.— 11
(i) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 12
paragraph (1), any personnel management 13
policy, letter, guideline, or directive of the 14
Administration relating to an emerging 15
threat to transportation security, including 16
national emergencies or disasters and pub-17
lic health threats to transportation secu-18
rity, may be modified or established until 19
the conversion date. 20
(ii) S
UBMISSION TO CONGRESS .—Not 21
later than 7 days after the date on which 22
any personnel management policy, letter, 23
guideline, or directive of the Administra-24
tion is modified or established under clause 25
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(i), the Secretary shall provide to the ap-1
propriate congressional committees that es-2
tablished or modified policy, letter, guide-3
line, or directive, as applicable, which shall 4
contain an explanation of the necessity of 5
that establishment or modification. 6
(b) P
ERSONNELAUTHORITIESDURINGTRANSITION 7
P
ERIOD.—Any TSA personnel management system in use 8
for covered employees and covered positions on the day 9
before the date of enactment of this Act, and any per-10
sonnel management policy, letter, guideline, or directive 11
of the Administration in effect on the day before the date 12
of enactment of this Act, shall remain in effect until the 13
conversion date. 14
(c) T
RANSITION TOTITLE5.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-16
graph (2), effective beginning on a date determined 17
by the Secretary, but in no event later than Decem-18
ber 31, 2025— 19
(A) all TSA personnel management sys-20
tems shall cease to be in effect; 21
(B) section 114(n) of title 49, United 22
States Code, is repealed; 23
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(C) section 111(d) of the Aviation and 1
Transportation Security Act (Public Law 107– 2
71; 49 U.S.C. 44935 note) is repealed; 3
(D) any personnel management policy, let-4
ter, guideline, or directive of the Administra-5
tion, including the 2022 Determination, shall 6
cease to be effective; 7
(E) any human resources management sys-8
tem established or adjusted under chapter 97 of 9
title 5, United States Code, with respect to cov-10
ered employees or covered positions shall cease 11
to be effective; and 12
(F) covered employees and covered posi-13
tions shall be subject to the provisions of title 14
5, United States Code. 15
(2) C
HAPTERS 71 AND 77 OF TITLE 5 .—Not 16
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of 17
this Act— 18
(A) chapters 71 and 77 of title 5, United 19
States Code, shall apply to covered employees 20
carrying out screening functions pursuant to 21
section 44901 of title 49, United States Code; 22
and 23
(B) any policy, letter, guideline, or direc-24
tive issued under section 111(d) of the Aviation 25
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and Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 1
44935 note) relating to matters otherwise cov-2
ered by chapter 71 or 77 of title 5, United 3
States Code, shall cease to be in effect. 4
(3) A
SSISTANCE OF OTHER AGENCIES .—Not 5
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 6
this Act, or December 31, 2025, whichever is ear-7
lier— 8
(A) the Director of the Office of Personnel 9
Management shall establish a position series 10
and classification standard for the positions of 11
Transportation Security Officer, Federal air 12
marshal, Transportation Security Inspector, 13
and other positions requested by the Adminis-14
trator; and 15
(B) the National Finance Center of the 16
Department of Agriculture shall make nec-17
essary changes to Financial Management Serv-18
ices and Human Resources Management Serv-19
ices to ensure payroll, leave, and other per-20
sonnel processing systems for covered employees 21
are consistent with chapter 53 of title 5, United 22
States Code, and provide functions as needed to 23
implement this Act. 24
(d) S
AFEGUARDS ON GRIEVANCES ANDAPPEALS.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Each covered employee with 1
a grievance or appeal pending within the Adminis-2
tration on the date of enactment of this Act or initi-3
ated during the transition period described in sub-4
section (c) may have that grievance or appeal re-5
moved to proceedings pursuant to title 5, United 6
States Code, or continued within TSA. 7
(2) A
UTHORITY.—With respect to any griev-8
ance or appeal continued within the Administration 9
under paragraph (1), the Administrator may con-10
sider and finally adjudicate that grievance or appeal 11
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act. 12
(3) P
RESERVATION OF RIGHTS .—Notwith-13
standing any other provision of law, any appeal or 14
grievance continued under this section that is not fi-15
nally adjudicated under paragraph (2) shall be pre-16
served and all timelines tolled until the rights af-17
forded by application of chapters 71 and 77 of title 18
5, United States Code, are made available under 19
subsection (c)(2). 20
SEC. 4. TRANSITION RULES. 21
(a) N
ONREDUCTION IN PAY ANDCOMPENSATION.— 22
Under such pay conversion rules as the Secretary may pre-23
scribe to carry out this Act, a covered employee converted 24
from a TSA personnel management system to the provi-25
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sions of title 5, United States Code, under section 1
3(c)(1)(F)— 2
(1) may not be subject to any reduction in ei-3
ther the rate of adjusted basic pay payable or law 4
enforcement availability pay payable to that covered 5
employee; and 6
(2) shall be credited for years of service in a 7
specific pay band under a TSA personnel manage-8
ment system as if the covered employee had served 9
in an equivalent General Schedule position at the 10
same grade, for purposes of determining the appro-11
priate step within a grade at which to establish the 12
converted rate of pay of the covered employee. 13
(b) R
ETIREMENTPAY.— 14
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 15
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 16
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-17
mittees a proposal, including proposed legislative 18
changes if needed, for determining the average pay 19
of any covered employee who retires not later than 20
3 years after the conversion date for purposes of cal-21
culating the retirement annuity of the covered em-22
ployee. 23
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(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The proposal required 1
under paragraph (1) shall be structured in a manner 2
that— 3
(A) is consistent with title 5, United States 4
Code; and 5
(B) appropriately accounts for the service 6
of a covered employee to which the proposal ap-7
plies, and the annual rate of basic pay of such 8
a covered employee, following the conversion 9
date. 10
(c) L
IMITATION ONPREMIUMPAY.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 12
5547 of title 5, United States Code, or any other 13
provision of law, a Federal air marshal or criminal 14
investigator who is appointed to that position before 15
the date of enactment of this Act may be eligible for 16
premium pay up to the maximum level allowed by 17
the Administrator before the date of enactment of 18
this Act. 19
(2) OPM
RECOGNITION.—The Director of the 20
Office of Personnel Management shall recognize pre-21
mium pay paid pursuant to paragraph (1) as fully 22
creditable for the purposes of calculating pay and re-23
tirement benefits. 24
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(d) PRESERVATION OF LAWENFORCEMENT AVAIL-1
ABILITYPAY ANDOVERTIMEPAYRATES FORFEDERAL 2
A
IRMARSHALS.— 3
(1) LEAP.—Section 5545a of title 5, United 4
States Code, is amended— 5
(A) in subsection (a)(2), in the matter pre-6
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub-7
section (k)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (l)’’; 8
(B) by redesignating subsection (k) as sub-9
section (l); and 10
(C) by inserting after subsection (j) the 11
following: 12
‘‘(k) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) 13
providing for availability pay shall apply to any Federal 14
air marshal who is an employee of the Transportation Se-15
curity Administration.’’. 16
(2) O
VERTIME.—Section 5542 of title 5, United 17
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 18
following: 19
‘‘(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 20
Federal air marshal who is an employee of the Transpor-21
tation Security Administration shall receive overtime pay 22
under this section, at such a rate and in such a manner 23
so that such Federal air marshal does not receive less 24
overtime pay than such Federal air marshal would receive 25
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were that Federal air marshal subject to the overtime pay 1
provisions of section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act 2
of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207).’’. 3
(3) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 4
by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply beginning on 5
the conversion date. 6
(e) C
OLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT.—Notwith-7
standing section 7112 of title 5, United States Code, fol-8
lowing the application of chapter 71 of that title pursuant 9
to section 3(c)(2) of this Act, screening agents shall re-10
main eligible to form a collective bargaining unit. 11
(f) P
RESERVATION OF OTHERRIGHTS.—The Sec-12
retary shall take any actions necessary to ensure that the 13
following rights are preserved and available for each cov-14
ered employee beginning on the conversion date, and for 15
any covered employee appointed after the conversion date, 16
and continue to remain available to covered employees 17
after the conversion date: 18
(1) Any annual leave, sick leave, or other paid 19
leave accrued, accumulated, or otherwise available to 20
a covered employee immediately before the conver-21
sion date shall remain available to the covered em-22
ployee until used, subject to any limitation on accu-23
mulated leave under chapter 63 of title 5, United 24
States Code. 25
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(2) Part-time screening agents pay premiums 1
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, on 2
the same basis as full-time covered employees. 3
(3) Notwithstanding section 6329a of title 5, 4
United States Code, covered employees are provided 5
appropriate leave during national emergencies to as-6
sist the covered employees and ensure the Adminis-7
tration meets mission requirements. 8
(4) Eligible screening agents receive a split-shift 9
differential for regularly scheduled split-shift work 10
as well as regularly scheduled overtime and irregular 11
and occasional split-shift work. 12
(5) Notwithstanding sections subsections (c), 13
(e), and (f) of section 5754 of title 5, United States 14
Code, eligible covered employees receive group reten-15
tion incentives, as appropriate. 16
SEC. 5. CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT. 17
(a) E
XCLUSIVEREPRESENTATIVE.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.— 19
(A) A
PPLICATION.—Beginning on the date 20
that chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code 21
(referred to in this subsection as ‘‘chapter 71’’), 22
begins to apply to covered employees under sec-23
tion 3(c)(2), the labor organization certified by 24
the Federal Labor Relations Authority on June 25
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29, 2011, or any successor labor organization, 1
shall be treated as the exclusive representative 2
of screening agents and shall be the exclusive 3
representative for screening agents under chap-4
ter 71, with full rights under chapter 71. 5
(B) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in 6
this subsection may be construed to prevent 7
covered employees from selecting an exclusive 8
representative other than the labor organization 9
described in paragraph (1) for purposes of col-10
lective bargaining under chapter 71. 11
(2) N
ATIONAL LEVEL.— 12
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 13
provision of chapter 71, collective bargaining 14
for any unit of covered employees shall occur at 15
the national level, but may be supplemented by 16
local level bargaining and local level agreements 17
in furtherance of elements of a national agree-18
ment or on issues of any local unit of covered 19
employees not otherwise covered by a national 20
agreement. 21
(B) M
UTUAL CONSENT REQUIRED .—Local- 22
level bargaining and local-level agreements de-23
scribed in subparagraph (A) shall occur only by 24
mutual consent of the exclusive representative 25
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of screening agents and the Federal Security 1
Director (or a designee of such an official) of 2
those screening agents. 3
(3) C
URRENT AGREEMENT .—Any collective bar-4
gaining agreement covering such personnel in effect 5
on the date of enactment of this Act shall remain in 6
effect until a collective bargaining agreement is en-7
tered into under chapter 71, unless the Adminis-8
trator and exclusive representative mutually agree to 9
revisions to such an agreement. 10
(b) C
ONSULTATIONPROCESS.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 7 days after 12
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 13
shall consult with the exclusive representative for the 14
screening agents described in subsection (a)(1) 15
under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, on 16
the formulation of plans and deadlines to carry out 17
the conversion, under this Act, of those screening 18
agents. 19
(2) W
RITTEN PLANS.—Before the date that 20
chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, begins to 21
apply under section 3(c)(2), the Secretary shall pro-22
vide (in writing) to the exclusive representative de-23
scribed in paragraph (1) the plans for how the Sec-24
retary intends to carry out the conversion of covered 25
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employees under this Act, including with respect to 1
such matters as— 2
(A) the anticipated conversion date; and 3
(B) measures to ensure compliance with 4
sections 3 and 4. 5
(c) R
EQUIREDAGENCYRESPONSE.—If any views or 6
recommendations are presented under subsection (b) by 7
the exclusive representative described in that subsection, 8
the Secretary shall— 9
(1) consider the views or recommendations be-10
fore taking final action on any matter with respect 11
to which the views or recommendations are pre-12
sented; and 13
(2) provide the exclusive representative a writ-14
ten statement of the reasons for the final actions to 15
be taken. 16
SEC. 6. NO RIGHT TO STRIKE. 17
Nothing in this Act may be considered— 18
(1) to repeal or otherwise affect— 19
(A) section 1918 of title 18, United States 20
Code (relating to disloyalty and asserting the 21
right to strike against the Government); or 22
(B) section 7311 of title 5, United States 23
Code (relating to loyalty and striking); or 24
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(2) to otherwise authorize any activity that is 1
not permitted under a provision of law described in 2
subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1). 3
SEC. 7. PROPOSAL ON HIRING AND CONTRACTING BACK-4
GROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS. 5
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 6
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 7
congressional committees a plan to harmonize and update, 8
for the purposes of making appointments and for author-9
izing or entering into any contract for service, the restric-10
tions under section 70105(c) of title 46, United States 11
Code, (relating to the issuance of transportation security 12
cards) and section 44936 of title 49, United States Code, 13
(relating to employment investigations and restrictions). 14
SEC. 8. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEWS. 15
(a) R
EVIEW OFRECRUITMENT.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 17
the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 18
General of the United States shall submit to Con-19
gress a report on the efforts of the Administration 20
regarding recruitment, including recruitment efforts 21
relating to veterans, the dependents of veterans, 22
members of the Armed Forces, and the dependents 23
of such members. 24
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(2) RECRUITMENT.—The report required under 1
paragraph (1) shall include recommendations re-2
garding how the Administration may improve the re-3
cruitment efforts described in that paragraph. 4
(b) R
EVIEW OFIMPLEMENTATION.—The Comptroller 5
General of the United States shall— 6
(1) not later than 60 days after the conversion 7
date, commence a review of the implementation of 8
this Act; and 9
(2) not later than 1 year after the conversion 10
date, submit to Congress a report on the review con-11
ducted under paragraph (1). 12
(c) R
EVIEW OFPROMOTIONPOLICIES ANDLEADER-13
SHIPDIVERSITY.—Not later than 1 year after the date 14
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 15
United States shall submit to Congress a report— 16
(1) on the efforts of the Administration to en-17
sure that recruitment, appointment, promotion, and 18
advancement opportunities within the Administra-19
tion are equitable and provide for demographics 20
among senior leadership that are reflective of the 21
workforce demographics of the United States; and 22
(2) that, to the extent possible, includes— 23
(A) an overview and analysis of the current 24
(as of the date on which the report is sub-25
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mitted) demographics of the leadership of the 1
Administration; and 2
(B) as appropriate, recommendations to 3
improve appointment and promotion procedures 4
and diversity in leadership roles, which may in-5
clude recommendations for how the Administra-6
tion can better promote from within the Admin-7
istration and retain and advance covered em-8
ployees. 9
(d) R
EVIEW OFHARASSMENT AND ASSAULTPOLI-10
CIES ANDPROTECTIONS.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 12
the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 13
General of the United States shall submit to Con-14
gress a report on the efforts of the Administration 15
to ensure the safety of the staff of the Administra-16
tion with respect to harassment and assault in the 17
workplace, such as incidents— 18
(A) of sexual harassment and violence and 19
harassment and violence motivated by the per-20
ceived race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, 21
or sexuality of an individual; and 22
(B) in which the alleged perpetrator is a 23
member of the general public. 24
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(2) INCLUSIONS.—The report required under 1
paragraph (1) shall include— 2
(A) an overview and analysis of the current 3
(as of the date on which the report is sub-4
mitted) policies and response procedures of the 5
Administration; 6
(B) a detailed description of if, when, and 7
how the policies described in subparagraph (A) 8
fail to adequately protect covered employees; 9
and 10
(C) as appropriate, recommendations for 11
steps the Administration can take to better pro-12
tect covered employees from harassment and vi-13
olence in the workplace. 14
(3) O
PPORTUNITY FOR COMMENT .—In con-15
ducting the review required under this subsection, 16
the Comptroller General of the United States shall 17
provide opportunities for covered employees of all 18
levels and positions, and labor organizations and as-19
sociations representing those covered employees, to 20
submit comments, including in an anonymous form, 21
and take those comments into account in the final 22
recommendations of the Comptroller General. 23
SEC. 9. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 24
It is the sense of Congress that— 25
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(1) TSA personnel management systems pro-1
vide insufficient benefits and workplace protections 2
to the workforce that secures the transportation sys-3
tems of the United States; 4
(2) covered employees should be provided pro-5
tections and benefits under title 5, United States 6
Code; and 7
(3) the provision of the protections and benefits 8
described in paragraph (2) should not result in a re-9
duction of pay or benefits to current covered employ-10
ees. 11
SEC. 10. ASSISTANCE FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL SERV-12
ICE. 13
The Administrator shall communicate with organiza-14
tions representing a significant number of Federal air 15
marshals, to the extent provided by law, to address con-16
cerns regarding Federal Air Marshals related to the fol-17
lowing: 18
(1) Mental health. 19
(2) Suicide rates. 20
(3) Morale and recruitment. 21
(4) Equipment and training. 22
(5) Work schedules and shifts, including man-23
dated periods of rest. 24
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(6) Any other personnel issues the Adminis-1
trator determines appropriate. 2
SEC. 11. BRIEFING ON ASSAULTS AND THREATS ON TSA EM-3
PLOYEES. 4
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 5
of this Act, the Administrator shall brief the appropriate 6
congressional committees regarding the following: 7
(1) Reports to the Administrator of instances of 8
physical or verbal assaults or threats made by mem-9
bers of the general public against screening agents 10
since January 1, 2019. 11
(2) Procedures for reporting the assaults and 12
threats described in paragraph (1), including infor-13
mation on how the Administrator communicates the 14
availability of those procedures. 15
(3) Any steps taken by the Administration to 16
prevent and respond to the assaults and threats de-17
scribed in paragraph (1). 18
(4) Any related civil actions and criminal refer-19
rals made annually since January 1, 2019. 20
(5) Any additional authorities needed by the 21
Administrator to better prevent or respond to the as-22
saults and threats described in paragraph (1). 23
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SEC. 12. ANNUAL REPORTS ON TSA WORKFORCE. 1
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 2
of this Act and annually thereafter, the Administrator 3
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 4
a report that contains the following: 5
(1) An analysis of the Federal Employee View-6
point Survey of the Office of Personnel Management 7
to determine job satisfaction rates of covered em-8
ployees. 9
(2) Information relating to retention rates of 10
covered employees at each airport, including trans-11
fers, in addition to aggregate retention rates of cov-12
ered employees across the workforce of the Adminis-13
tration. 14
(3) Information relating to actions taken by the 15
Administration intended to improve workforce mo-16
rale and retention. 17
SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 18
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as 19
may be necessary, to remain available until expended, to 20
carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 21
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