S.Amdt. 4049

SA 4049. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr.
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in division A, insert the
following:
Sec. __.  It is the sense of Congress that, during the
pending summer travel season, the Transportation Security
Administration should use all existing resources and
technology to increase the efficiency of security screening
at airports while preserving a high level of security,
including by--
(1) redeploying behavior detection officers to staff the
travel document checker position and putting the travel
document checkers at screening checkpoints to perform
screening functions;
(2) redeploying divest officers to screening checkpoints to
perform screening functions and accepting the voluntary
assistance of airports or air carriers with queuing and
encouraging passengers to properly divest;
(3) providing Federal security directors the ability to
make local decisions about manpower resource allocation
without having to consult with Transportation Security
Administration headquarters;
(4) immediately disseminating to airports and Federal
security directors the best practices developed during the
optimization team visits;
(5) using passenger screening canines to their greatest
benefit in terms of both volume and mitigating excessive
screening checkpoint wait times;
(6) conducting local training of transportation security
officers until after the busy summer travel season;
(7) ensuring predictable and consistent operating hours for
the PreCheck program and immediately initiating a marketing
blitz highlighting the program and its benefits in
coordination with airports;
(8) reassigning all available administrative and regulatory
personnel to support passenger and baggage screening
operations;
(9) moving available part-time screeners to full-time for
the summer; and
(10) adopting an online enrollment process for the PreCheck
program.
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