S.Amdt. 1948

SA 1948. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1911 submitted by Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Mr. Cruz, Ms.
Duckworth, and Mr. Moran) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R.
3935, to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize and improve
the Federal Aviation Administration and other civil aviation programs,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of section 221, add the following:
(d) Data Collection and Reporting.--
(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
(A) FAA office.--The term ``FAA office'' means any office
space owned or leased by the FAA at which 1 or more employees
of the FAA or employees of any contractor with the FAA
regularly perform their duties.
(B) Teleworking employee.--The term ``teleworking
employee'' means an employee of the FAA or of any contractor
with the FAA who is covered by a telework agreement.
(C) Working remotely.--The term ``working remotely'' means
performing work duties on a computer outside of an FAA
office.
(2) Initiation of data collection.--Not later than
September 1, 2024, the Administrator shall--
(A) establish policies requiring the login activity and
traffic on Federal information technology equipment of each
teleworking employee working remotely to be recorded; and
(B) establish best practices for managers of teleworking
employees to periodically review each teleworking employee's
traffic log while working remotely.
(3) Retention of data collection.--The Administrator shall
retain the data collected under paragraph (2) for a period of
not less than 3 years from the date on which the data is
collected. The information collected and retained during such
period shall include, with respect to each teleworking
employee working remotely, at minimum, the following:
(A) The average number of logins made each day by the
teleworking employee.
(B) The average daily connection duration for the
teleworking employee.
(C) The network traffic the teleworking employee generates
while working remotely.
(4) Report.--The Secretary shall include in the budget
justification materials (as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
(31 U.S.C. 6101 note)) of the Department of Transportation
the data collected under paragraph (2) in an aggregated
format which protects personally identifiable information and
compares the data to the average utilization rates of
teleworking employees working remotely on each weekday to the
average utilization rates of all Federal employees with a
telework agreement who work remotely, for the most recent
period for which such data is available.
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