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12 119THCONGRESS
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34 STSESSION H. R. 862
4-AN ACT
5+To reduce commuting burdens on Transportation Security Administration
6+employees, and for other purposes.
7+IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8+JANUARY31, 2025
9+Mr. K
10+ENNEDYof New York (for himself and Mr. GARBARINO) introduced the
11+following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
12+A BILL
513 To reduce commuting burdens on Transportation Security
614 Administration employees, and for other purposes.
715 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
8-tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2
9-•HR 862 EH
10-SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
11-This Act may be cited as the ‘‘TSA Commuting Fair-2
12-ness Act’’. 3
13-SEC. 2. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON TSA COMMUTING BENE-4
14-FITS. 5
16+tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
17+SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
18+This Act may be cited as the ‘‘TSA Commuting Fair-4
19+ness Act’’. 5
20+SEC. 2. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON TSA COMMUTING BENE-6
21+FITS. 7
1522 (a) I
16-NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 6
17-date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 7
18-the Transportation Security Administration shall submit 8
19-to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 9
20-Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 10
21-Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Home-11
22-land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 12
23-study on the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the 13
24-time Transportation Security Administration employees 14
25-working at airport locations spend traveling between reg-15
26-ular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and 16
27-transit stops. 17
23+NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 8
24+date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 9
25+the Transportation Security Administration shall submit 10
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29+to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 1
30+Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 2
31+Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Home-3
32+land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a 4
33+study on the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the 5
34+time Transportation Security Administration employees 6
35+working at airport locations spend traveling between reg-7
36+ular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and 8
37+transit stops. 9
2838 (b) C
29-ONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the feasibility 18
30-study required under subsection (a), the Administrator of 19
31-the Transportation Security Administration shall consider 20
32-the following with respect to Transportation Security Ad-21
33-ministration employees: 22
34-(1) The amount of time needed by such employ-23
35-ees to travel between regular duty locations and air-24
36-port parking lots and bus and transit stops at small 25
37-hub airports, medium hub airports, and large hub 26 3
38-•HR 862 EH
39-airports (as such terms are defined in section 40102 1
40-of title 49, United States Code). 2
41-(2) The amount of time such employees spend 3
42-commuting, on average, exclusive of the time de-4
43-scribed in paragraph (1). 5
44-(3) The potential benefits to such employees 6
45-and the Administration of treating as on-duty hours 7
46-the time described in such paragraph. 8
47-(4) The feasibility of using mobile phones, loca-9
48-tion data, and any other means to allow such em-10
49-ployees to report their arrival to and departure from 11
50-the airport parking lots and bus and transit stops 12
51-concerned. 13
52-(5) The estimated costs of treating as on-duty 14
53-hours the time described in such paragraph, includ-15
54-ing by considering such hours creditable as basic pay 16
55-for retirement purposes. 17
56-(6) Other considerations determined appro-18
57-priate by the Administrator. 19
58-Passed the House of Representatives March 10,
59-2025.
60-Attest:
61-Clerk. 119
62-TH
63-CONGRESS
64-1
65-ST
66-S
67-ESSION
68-
69-H. R. 862
70-AN ACT
71-To reduce commuting burdens on Transportation
72-Security Administration employees, and for other
73-purposes.
39+ONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the feasibility 10
40+study required under subsection (a), the Administrator of 11
41+the Transportation Security Administration shall consider 12
42+the following with respect to Transportation Security Ad-13
43+ministration employees: 14
44+(1) The amount of time needed by such employ-15
45+ees to travel between regular duty locations and air-16
46+port parking lots and bus and transit stops at small 17
47+hub airports, medium hub airports, and large hub 18
48+airports (as such terms are defined in section 40102 19
49+of title 49, United States Code). 20
50+(2) The amount of time such employees spend 21
51+commuting, on average, exclusive of the time de-22
52+scribed in paragraph (1). 23
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56+(3) The potential benefits to such employees 1
57+and the Administration of treating as on-duty hours 2
58+the time described in such paragraph. 3
59+(4) The feasibility of using mobile phones, loca-4
60+tion data, and any other means to allow such em-5
61+ployees to report their arrival to and departure from 6
62+the airport parking lots and bus and transit stops 7
63+concerned. 8
64+(5) The estimated costs of treating as on-duty 9
65+hours the time described in such paragraph, includ-10
66+ing by considering such hours creditable as basic pay 11
67+for retirement purposes. 12
68+(6) Other considerations determined appro-13
69+priate by the Administrator. 14
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