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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION S. 1180
To abolish the Transportation Security Administration, and for other
purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH27, 2025
Mr. L
EE(for himself and Mr. TUBERVILLE) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To abolish 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
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Abolish TSA Act of 4
2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
In this Act: 7
(1) A
DMINISTRATION.—The term ‘‘Administra-8
tion’’ means the Transportation Security Adminis-9
tration. 10
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(2) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-1
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Transpor-2
tation Security Administration. 3
(3) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -4
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-5
mittees’’ means— 6
(A) the Committee on Homeland Security 7
and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 8
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 9
the Senate; and 10
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 11
and the Committee on Energy and Commerce 12
of the House of Representatives. 13
(4) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 14
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 15
SEC. 3. POLICY. 16
It shall be the policy of the Secretary— 17
(1) to expeditiously eliminate or transfer all au-18
thorities, enforcement functions, and programs of 19
the Administration; and 20
(2) to privatize all commercial airport security 21
to increase cost-efficiency and security. 22
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SEC. 4. TERMINATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION SECU-1
RITY ADMINISTRATION. 2
On the date that is 3 years after the date of the en-3
actment of this Act, the Administration shall be abolished, 4
and any program for which the Administrator has admin-5
istrative responsibility as provided by law or by delegation 6
of authority pursuant to law is repealed. 7
SEC. 5. REORGANIZATION PLAN. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 9
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in 10
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, submit 11
to Congress a reorganization plan for the Administration. 12
(b) C
ONTENTS.—The plan required by subsection (a) 13
shall include the following: 14
(1) A plan for the establishment of the Office 15
of Aviation Security Oversight within the Federal 16
Aviation Administration, which shall— 17
(A) be headed by a Director; and 18
(B) be responsible for the oversight and 19
regulation of all aviation security activities de-20
scribed in section 44920 of title 49, United 21
States Code, except that no employee of the Of-22
fice shall conduct airport screening services. 23
(2) A plan for the rapid transfer of all aviation 24
security activities and equipment to qualified private 25
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screening companies described in section 44920 of 1
title 49, United States Code. 2
(3) A description of any necessary changes, as 3
the Secretary determines, to the program described 4
in section 44920 of title 49, United States Code; 5
(4) Subject to paragraph (2), a plan for propor-6
tional reductions of operations and personnel until 7
the transfer is complete and no operations of per-8
sonnel of the Administration remain. 9
(5) A plan to transfer to the Department of 10
Transportation any functions, personnel, assets, and 11
liabilities of the Administration with respect to sur-12
face transportation, including activities relating to 13
mass transit, freight rail, highway motor carriers, 14
and pipelines. 15
(c) E
XCLUSIONS.—The plan may not include— 16
(1) any agency requirement or regulation com-17
pelling private contractors conducting airport secu-18
rity screening services to conduct warrantless 19
searches and seizures; and 20
(2) an extension of the deadline in section 4. 21
(d) P
ERIODICREPORTS.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 23
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 30 24
days thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with 25
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the Secretary of Transportation, shall submit a re-1
port to the Comptroller General of the United States 2
and the appropriate congressional committees on the 3
progress of compliance with this Act. 4
(2) GAO
REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 5
after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 6
180 days thereafter, the Comptroller General of the 7
United States shall submit to Congress a report de-8
tailing the compliance of the Secretary with this Act. 9
SEC. 6. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF REORGANIZATION 10
PLAN. 11
(a) J
OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVALDEFINED.— 12
In this section, the term ‘‘joint resolution of approval’’ 13
means only a joint resolution of either House of Con-14
gress— 15
(1) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘A joint res-16
olution approving the Secretary of Homeland Secu-17
rity’s reorganization plan for the Transportation Se-18
curity Administration.’’; and 19
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of 20
which is the following: ‘‘Congress approves the reor-21
ganization plan submitted by the Secretary of 22
Homeland Security to Congress in accordance with 23
section 5 of the Abolish TSA Act of 2025 on lll 24
relating tolll’’, with the first blank space being 25
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filled with the appropriate date and the second blank 1
space being filled with a detailed description of the 2
proposed reorganization plan required by section 5, 3
including any amendments made by Congress. 4
(b) I
NTRODUCTION AND REFERENCE OF RESOLU-5
TION.—Not later than the first session day following the 6
date on a which a reorganization plan is transmitted to 7
the House of Representatives and the Senate under sec-8
tion 5, a joint resolution of approval shall be introduced 9
by a member of the House or Senate. 10
(c) C
ONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OFREPRESENT-11
ATIVES.— 12
(1) C
OMMITTEE REFERRAL .—A joint resolution 13
of approval shall be referred to the Committee on 14
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. 15
(2) F
LOOR CONSIDERATION IN HOUSE OF REP -16
RESENTATIVES.—If the Committee on Homeland Se-17
curity of the House of Representatives has not re-18
ported the joint resolution within 75 continuous ses-19
sion days after the date of referral, that committee 20
shall be discharged from further consideration of the 21
joint resolution. 22
(d) C
ONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 23
(1) C
OMMITTEE REFERRAL .—A joint resolution 24
of approval introduced in the Senate shall be re-25
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ferred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 1
Transportation of the Senate. 2
(2) R
EPORTING AND DISCHARGE .—If the com-3
mittee to which a joint resolution of approval was re-4
ferred has not reported the joint resolution within 5
75 continuous session days after the date of referral 6
of the joint resolution, that committee shall be dis-7
charged from further consideration of the joint reso-8
lution and the joint resolution shall be placed on the 9
appropriate calendar. 10
(3) P
ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .—Not-11
withstanding Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 12
the Senate, it is in order at any time after the Com-13
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 14
reports a joint resolution of approval to the Senate 15
or has been discharged from consideration of such a 16
joint resolution (even though a previous motion to 17
the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 18
proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, 19
and all points of order against the joint resolution 20
(and against consideration of the joint resolution) 21
are waived. The motion to proceed is not debatable. 22
The motion is not subject to a motion to postpone. 23
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion 24
is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. 25
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(4) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCEDURE .— 1
Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 2
the application of the rules of the Senate, as the 3
case may be, to the procedure relating to a joint res-4
olution of approval shall be decided without debate. 5
(5) C
ONSIDERATION OF VETO MESSAGES .—De-6
bate in the Senate of any veto message with respect 7
to a joint resolution of approval, including all debat-8
able motions and appeals in connection with the 9
joint resolution, shall be limited to 10 hours, to be 10
equally divided between, and controlled by, the ma-11
jority leader and the minority leader or their des-12
ignees. 13
(e) R
ULESRELATING TOSENATE ANDHOUSE OF 14
R
EPRESENTATIVES.— 15
(1) T
REATMENT OF SENATE JOINT RESOLU -16
TION IN HOUSE.—In the House of Representatives, 17
the following procedures shall apply to a joint reso-18
lution of approval received from the Senate (unless 19
the House has already passed a joint resolution re-20
lating to the same proposed action): 21
(A) The joint resolution shall be referred 22
to the appropriate committee. 23
(B) If a committee to which a joint resolu-24
tion has been referred has not reported the 25
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joint resolution within 5 legislative days after 1
the date of referral, that committee shall be dis-2
charged from further consideration of the joint 3
resolution. 4
(C) Beginning on the third legislative day 5
after each committee to which a joint resolution 6
has been referred reports the joint resolution to 7
the House or has been discharged from further 8
consideration thereof, it shall be in order to 9
move to proceed to consider the joint resolution 10
in the House. All points of order against the 11
motion are waived. Such a motion shall not be 12
in order after the House has disposed of a mo-13
tion to proceed on the joint resolution. The pre-14
vious question shall be considered as ordered on 15
the motion to its adoption without intervening 16
motion. The motion shall not be debatable. A 17
motion to reconsider the vote by which the mo-18
tion is disposed of shall not be in order. 19
(D) The joint resolution shall be consid-20
ered as read. All points of order against the 21
joint resolution and against its consideration 22
are waived. The previous question shall be con-23
sidered as ordered on the joint resolution to 24
final passage without intervening motion except 25
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2 hours of debate equally divided and controlled 1
by the sponsor of the joint resolution (or a des-2
ignee) and an opponent. A motion to reconsider 3
the vote on passage of the joint resolution shall 4
not be in order. 5
(2) T
REATMENT OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 6
IN SENATE.— 7
(A) R
ECEIPT BEFORE PASSAGE .—If, be-8
fore the passage by the Senate of a joint resolu-9
tion of approval, the Senate receives an iden-10
tical joint resolution from the House of Rep-11
resentatives, the following procedures shall 12
apply: 13
(i) That joint resolution shall not be 14
referred to a committee. 15
(ii) With respect to that joint resolu-16
tion— 17
(I) the procedure in the Senate 18
shall be the same as if no joint resolu-19
tion had been received from the 20
House of Representatives; but 21
(II) the vote on passage shall be 22
on the joint resolution from the House 23
of Representatives. 24
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(B) RECEIPT AFTER PASSAGE .—If, fol-1
lowing passage of a joint resolution of approval 2
in the Senate, the Senate receives an identical 3
joint resolution from the House of Representa-4
tives, that joint resolution shall be placed on the 5
appropriate Senate calendar. 6
(C) N
O COMPANION MEASURE .—If a joint 7
resolution of approval is received from the 8
House, and no companion joint resolution has 9
been introduced in the Senate, the Senate pro-10
cedures under this subsection shall apply to the 11
House joint resolution. 12
(3) A
PPLICATION TO REVENUE MEASURES .— 13
The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in 14
the House of Representatives to a joint resolution of 15
approval that is a revenue measure. 16
(f) R
ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 17
S
ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 18
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 19
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-20
spectively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules 21
of each House, respectively, and supersedes other 22
rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with 23
such rules; and 24
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(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 1
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 2
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 3
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 4
the case of any other rule of that House. 5
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