S.Amdt. 2113

SA 2113. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mr. Moran) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1095. ESTABLISHMENT OF AVIATION SECURITY CHECKPOINT
TECHNOLOGY FUND.

(a) In General.--Section 44923 of title 49, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new
subsection:
``(i) Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund.--
``(1) In general.--There is established within the
Department of Homeland Security a fund to be known as the
Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund (in this
subsection referred to as the `ASCT Fund'). The second
$250,000,000 from fees received under section 44940(a)(1) in
each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 shall be available to
be deposited in the ASCT Fund. The Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration shall impose the fee
authorized by section 44940(a)(1) so as to collect not less
than $250,000,000 in each of such fiscal years for deposit
into the ASCT Fund. Amounts in the ASCT Fund shall be
available until expended to the Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration to fund the
procurement, test, deployment, and post-deployment
enhancements of aviation security checkpoint technology.
``(2) TSA briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this subsection and quarterly thereafter
for 5 years, the Administrator of the Transportation Security
Administration shall brief the Committee on Homeland Security
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate regarding planned procurement, test, deployment, and
post-deployment enhancement efforts of aviation security
checkpoint technology at airport checkpoints through amounts
made available from the ASCT Fund.''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 44940(i)(1) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``section
44923(h)'' and inserting ``subsections (h) and (i) of section
44923''.
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