Aircraft Repair Station Security Enhancement Act of 2005

Aircraft Repair Station Security Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security to require by regulation that an employment investigation (including a criminal history record check and a review of available law enforcement data bases and records of other governmental and international agencies) be conducted by repair station operators of repair station employees (including current employees) who perform maintenance on aircraft or aircraft components (or both) at domestic or certificated foreign repair stations.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4582 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4582

     To amend title 49, United States Code, to require employment 
investigations for employees of aircraft repair stations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2005

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 49, United States Code, to require employment 
investigations for employees of aircraft repair stations, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Aircraft Repair Station Security 
Enhancement Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. SECURITY OF AIRCRAFT REPAIR STATIONS.

    (a) Employment Investigation Requirement.--Section 44936(a) of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
        subparagraphs (D) and (E), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
                    ``(C) Repair station employees.--The Under 
                Secretary shall require by regulation that an 
                employment investigation (including a criminal history 
                record check and a review of available law enforcement 
                data bases and records of other governmental and 
                international agencies to the extent determined 
                practicable by the Under Secretary) be conducted for 
                individuals at repair stations who perform maintenance 
                on aircraft or components (or both) used in conducting 
                operations under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal 
                Regulations (or any successor regulation).''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (D)(i) (as redesignated by paragraph 
        (1) of this subsection) by inserting before the period at the 
        end the following: ``and any individual who is employed in a 
        position described in subparagraph (C) on the date of enactment 
        of the Aircraft Repair Station Security Enhancement Act of 
        2005''.
    (b) Repair Station Operators.--
            (1) Requirements applicable to employers.--Section 44936 of 
        such title is amended in each of subsections (a)(2), (b)(1), 
        and (b)(3) by inserting ``repair station operator,'' after 
        ``airport operator,''.
            (2) Repair station defined.--Section 44936 of such title is 
        amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Repair Station Defined.--In this section, the term `repair 
station' means a domestic or foreign repair station certificated under 
part 145 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor 
regulation), a fixed base operator, a maintenance repair or overhaul 
facility, an aircraft manufacturer (including a subsidiary), an 
airframe or engine manufacturer, and a structural or component 
manufacturer.''.
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