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44 STSESSION S. 1180
55 To abolish the Transportation Security Administration, and for other
66 purposes.
77 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
88 MARCH27, 2025
99 Mr. L
1010 EE(for himself and Mr. TUBERVILLE) introduced the following bill;
1111 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce,
1212 Science, and Transportation
1313 A BILL
1414 To abolish the Transportation Security Administration, and
1515 for other purposes.
1616 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1717 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1818 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
1919 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Abolish TSA Act of 4
2020 2025’’. 5
2121 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
2222 In this Act: 7
2323 (1) A
2424 DMINISTRATION.—The term ‘‘Administra-8
2525 tion’’ means the Transportation Security Adminis-9
2626 tration. 10
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3030 (2) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-1
3131 trator’’ means the Administrator of the Transpor-2
3232 tation Security Administration. 3
3333 (3) A
3434 PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -4
3535 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-5
3636 mittees’’ means— 6
3737 (A) the Committee on Homeland Security 7
3838 and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 8
3939 on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 9
4040 the Senate; and 10
4141 (B) the Committee on Homeland Security 11
4242 and the Committee on Energy and Commerce 12
4343 of the House of Representatives. 13
4444 (4) S
4545 ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 14
4646 the Secretary of Homeland Security. 15
4747 SEC. 3. POLICY. 16
4848 It shall be the policy of the Secretary— 17
4949 (1) to expeditiously eliminate or transfer all au-18
5050 thorities, enforcement functions, and programs of 19
5151 the Administration; and 20
5252 (2) to privatize all commercial airport security 21
5353 to increase cost-efficiency and security. 22
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5757 SEC. 4. TERMINATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION SECU-1
5858 RITY ADMINISTRATION. 2
5959 On the date that is 3 years after the date of the en-3
6060 actment of this Act, the Administration shall be abolished, 4
6161 and any program for which the Administrator has admin-5
6262 istrative responsibility as provided by law or by delegation 6
6363 of authority pursuant to law is repealed. 7
6464 SEC. 5. REORGANIZATION PLAN. 8
6565 (a) I
6666 NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 9
6767 date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in 10
6868 consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, submit 11
6969 to Congress a reorganization plan for the Administration. 12
7070 (b) C
7171 ONTENTS.—The plan required by subsection (a) 13
7272 shall include the following: 14
7373 (1) A plan for the establishment of the Office 15
7474 of Aviation Security Oversight within the Federal 16
7575 Aviation Administration, which shall— 17
7676 (A) be headed by a Director; and 18
7777 (B) be responsible for the oversight and 19
7878 regulation of all aviation security activities de-20
7979 scribed in section 44920 of title 49, United 21
8080 States Code, except that no employee of the Of-22
8181 fice shall conduct airport screening services. 23
8282 (2) A plan for the rapid transfer of all aviation 24
8383 security activities and equipment to qualified private 25
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8787 screening companies described in section 44920 of 1
8888 title 49, United States Code. 2
8989 (3) A description of any necessary changes, as 3
9090 the Secretary determines, to the program described 4
9191 in section 44920 of title 49, United States Code; 5
9292 (4) Subject to paragraph (2), a plan for propor-6
9393 tional reductions of operations and personnel until 7
9494 the transfer is complete and no operations of per-8
9595 sonnel of the Administration remain. 9
9696 (5) A plan to transfer to the Department of 10
9797 Transportation any functions, personnel, assets, and 11
9898 liabilities of the Administration with respect to sur-12
9999 face transportation, including activities relating to 13
100100 mass transit, freight rail, highway motor carriers, 14
101101 and pipelines. 15
102102 (c) E
103103 XCLUSIONS.—The plan may not include— 16
104104 (1) any agency requirement or regulation com-17
105105 pelling private contractors conducting airport secu-18
106106 rity screening services to conduct warrantless 19
107107 searches and seizures; and 20
108108 (2) an extension of the deadline in section 4. 21
109109 (d) P
110110 ERIODICREPORTS.— 22
111111 (1) I
112112 N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 23
113113 the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 30 24
114114 days thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with 25
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118118 the Secretary of Transportation, shall submit a re-1
119119 port to the Comptroller General of the United States 2
120120 and the appropriate congressional committees on the 3
121121 progress of compliance with this Act. 4
122122 (2) GAO
123123 REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 5
124124 after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 6
125125 180 days thereafter, the Comptroller General of the 7
126126 United States shall submit to Congress a report de-8
127127 tailing the compliance of the Secretary with this Act. 9
128128 SEC. 6. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF REORGANIZATION 10
129129 PLAN. 11
130130 (a) J
131131 OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVALDEFINED.— 12
132132 In this section, the term ‘‘joint resolution of approval’’ 13
133133 means only a joint resolution of either House of Con-14
134134 gress— 15
135135 (1) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘A joint res-16
136136 olution approving the Secretary of Homeland Secu-17
137137 rity’s reorganization plan for the Transportation Se-18
138138 curity Administration.’’; and 19
139139 (2) the matter after the resolving clause of 20
140140 which is the following: ‘‘Congress approves the reor-21
141141 ganization plan submitted by the Secretary of 22
142142 Homeland Security to Congress in accordance with 23
143143 section 5 of the Abolish TSA Act of 2025 on lll 24
144144 relating tolll’’, with the first blank space being 25
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148148 filled with the appropriate date and the second blank 1
149149 space being filled with a detailed description of the 2
150150 proposed reorganization plan required by section 5, 3
151151 including any amendments made by Congress. 4
152152 (b) I
153153 NTRODUCTION AND REFERENCE OF RESOLU-5
154154 TION.—Not later than the first session day following the 6
155155 date on a which a reorganization plan is transmitted to 7
156156 the House of Representatives and the Senate under sec-8
157157 tion 5, a joint resolution of approval shall be introduced 9
158158 by a member of the House or Senate. 10
159159 (c) C
160160 ONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OFREPRESENT-11
161161 ATIVES.— 12
162162 (1) C
163163 OMMITTEE REFERRAL .—A joint resolution 13
164164 of approval shall be referred to the Committee on 14
165165 Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. 15
166166 (2) F
167167 LOOR CONSIDERATION IN HOUSE OF REP -16
168168 RESENTATIVES.—If the Committee on Homeland Se-17
169169 curity of the House of Representatives has not re-18
170170 ported the joint resolution within 75 continuous ses-19
171171 sion days after the date of referral, that committee 20
172172 shall be discharged from further consideration of the 21
173173 joint resolution. 22
174174 (d) C
175175 ONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 23
176176 (1) C
177177 OMMITTEE REFERRAL .—A joint resolution 24
178178 of approval introduced in the Senate shall be re-25
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182182 ferred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 1
183183 Transportation of the Senate. 2
184184 (2) R
185185 EPORTING AND DISCHARGE .—If the com-3
186186 mittee to which a joint resolution of approval was re-4
187187 ferred has not reported the joint resolution within 5
188188 75 continuous session days after the date of referral 6
189189 of the joint resolution, that committee shall be dis-7
190190 charged from further consideration of the joint reso-8
191191 lution and the joint resolution shall be placed on the 9
192192 appropriate calendar. 10
193193 (3) P
194194 ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .—Not-11
195195 withstanding Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 12
196196 the Senate, it is in order at any time after the Com-13
197197 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 14
198198 reports a joint resolution of approval to the Senate 15
199199 or has been discharged from consideration of such a 16
200200 joint resolution (even though a previous motion to 17
201201 the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 18
202202 proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, 19
203203 and all points of order against the joint resolution 20
204204 (and against consideration of the joint resolution) 21
205205 are waived. The motion to proceed is not debatable. 22
206206 The motion is not subject to a motion to postpone. 23
207207 A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion 24
208208 is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. 25
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212212 (4) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCEDURE .— 1
213213 Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 2
214214 the application of the rules of the Senate, as the 3
215215 case may be, to the procedure relating to a joint res-4
216216 olution of approval shall be decided without debate. 5
217217 (5) C
218218 ONSIDERATION OF VETO MESSAGES .—De-6
219219 bate in the Senate of any veto message with respect 7
220220 to a joint resolution of approval, including all debat-8
221221 able motions and appeals in connection with the 9
222222 joint resolution, shall be limited to 10 hours, to be 10
223223 equally divided between, and controlled by, the ma-11
224224 jority leader and the minority leader or their des-12
225225 ignees. 13
226226 (e) R
227227 ULESRELATING TOSENATE ANDHOUSE OF 14
228228 R
229229 EPRESENTATIVES.— 15
230230 (1) T
231231 REATMENT OF SENATE JOINT RESOLU -16
232232 TION IN HOUSE.—In the House of Representatives, 17
233233 the following procedures shall apply to a joint reso-18
234234 lution of approval received from the Senate (unless 19
235235 the House has already passed a joint resolution re-20
236236 lating to the same proposed action): 21
237237 (A) The joint resolution shall be referred 22
238238 to the appropriate committee. 23
239239 (B) If a committee to which a joint resolu-24
240240 tion has been referred has not reported the 25
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244244 joint resolution within 5 legislative days after 1
245245 the date of referral, that committee shall be dis-2
246246 charged from further consideration of the joint 3
247247 resolution. 4
248248 (C) Beginning on the third legislative day 5
249249 after each committee to which a joint resolution 6
250250 has been referred reports the joint resolution to 7
251251 the House or has been discharged from further 8
252252 consideration thereof, it shall be in order to 9
253253 move to proceed to consider the joint resolution 10
254254 in the House. All points of order against the 11
255255 motion are waived. Such a motion shall not be 12
256256 in order after the House has disposed of a mo-13
257257 tion to proceed on the joint resolution. The pre-14
258258 vious question shall be considered as ordered on 15
259259 the motion to its adoption without intervening 16
260260 motion. The motion shall not be debatable. A 17
261261 motion to reconsider the vote by which the mo-18
262262 tion is disposed of shall not be in order. 19
263263 (D) The joint resolution shall be consid-20
264264 ered as read. All points of order against the 21
265265 joint resolution and against its consideration 22
266266 are waived. The previous question shall be con-23
267267 sidered as ordered on the joint resolution to 24
268268 final passage without intervening motion except 25
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272272 2 hours of debate equally divided and controlled 1
273273 by the sponsor of the joint resolution (or a des-2
274274 ignee) and an opponent. A motion to reconsider 3
275275 the vote on passage of the joint resolution shall 4
276276 not be in order. 5
277277 (2) T
278278 REATMENT OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 6
279279 IN SENATE.— 7
280280 (A) R
281281 ECEIPT BEFORE PASSAGE .—If, be-8
282282 fore the passage by the Senate of a joint resolu-9
283283 tion of approval, the Senate receives an iden-10
284284 tical joint resolution from the House of Rep-11
285285 resentatives, the following procedures shall 12
286286 apply: 13
287287 (i) That joint resolution shall not be 14
288288 referred to a committee. 15
289289 (ii) With respect to that joint resolu-16
290290 tion— 17
291291 (I) the procedure in the Senate 18
292292 shall be the same as if no joint resolu-19
293293 tion had been received from the 20
294294 House of Representatives; but 21
295295 (II) the vote on passage shall be 22
296296 on the joint resolution from the House 23
297297 of Representatives. 24
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301301 (B) RECEIPT AFTER PASSAGE .—If, fol-1
302302 lowing passage of a joint resolution of approval 2
303303 in the Senate, the Senate receives an identical 3
304304 joint resolution from the House of Representa-4
305305 tives, that joint resolution shall be placed on the 5
306306 appropriate Senate calendar. 6
307307 (C) N
308308 O COMPANION MEASURE .—If a joint 7
309309 resolution of approval is received from the 8
310310 House, and no companion joint resolution has 9
311311 been introduced in the Senate, the Senate pro-10
312312 cedures under this subsection shall apply to the 11
313313 House joint resolution. 12
314314 (3) A
315315 PPLICATION TO REVENUE MEASURES .— 13
316316 The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in 14
317317 the House of Representatives to a joint resolution of 15
318318 approval that is a revenue measure. 16
319319 (f) R
320320 ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 17
321321 S
322322 ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 18
323323 (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 19
324324 the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-20
325325 spectively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules 21
326326 of each House, respectively, and supersedes other 22
327327 rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with 23
328328 such rules; and 24
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332332 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 1
333333 right of either House to change the rules (so far as 2
334334 relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 3
335335 in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 4
336336 the case of any other rule of that House. 5
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