No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012

No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to determine whether checked baggage on a flight or flight segment originating at an airport outside the United States where U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has established preclearance operations must be re-screened in the United States for explosives before it can continue on any additional flight or flight segment.

Prohibits the Assistant Secretary from exercising this authority, however, unless an agreement is in effect between the United States and the flight originating country requiring implementation of security standards and protocols determined comparable to those of the United States and therefore sufficiently effective to enable passengers to deplane into sterile areas of U.S. airports.

Requires the Assistant Secretary to report annually to Congress on the re-screening of baggage.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6028 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6028

       To authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
     (Transportation Security Administration) to modify screening 
 requirements for checked baggage arriving from preclearance airports, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2012

Mr. Walsh of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
       To authorize the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
     (Transportation Security Administration) to modify screening 
 requirements for checked baggage arriving from preclearance airports, 
                        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 ``No-Hassle Flying Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. PRECLEARANCE AIRPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 44901(d) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Preclearance airports.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For a flight or flight segment 
                originating at an airport outside the United States and 
                traveling to the United States with respect to which 
                checked baggage has been screened in accordance with an 
                aviation security preclearance agreement between the 
                United States and the country in which such airport is 
                located, the Assistant Secretary (Transportation 
                Security Administration) shall have discretion to 
                determine whether such baggage must be re-screened in 
                the United States by an explosives detection system 
                before such baggage continues on any additional flight 
                or flight segment.
                    ``(B) Aviation security preclearance agreement 
                defined.--In this paragraph, the term `aviation 
                security preclearance agreement' means an agreement 
                that delineates and implements security standards and 
                protocols that are determined comparable to those of 
                the United States and therefore sufficiently effective 
                to enable passengers to deplane into sterile areas of 
                airports in the United States.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 44901 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``explosive'' each place it appears 
and inserting ``explosives''.
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