Flight School Security Act of 2012

Flight School Security Act of 2012 - Revises federal flight training requirements authorizing a flight instructor, pilot school, or aviation training center to provide training in the operation of certain aircraft to an alien or any other individual specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS).

Prescribes the additional requirement that such training may occur only upon receipt of information from the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) that: (1) the individual has been checked against the terrorist watchlist, and (2) the Assistant Secretary has determined that individual is a non-threat to aviation.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6159 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6159

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that individuals 
   seeking training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked 
  against the terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are 
                        non-threats to aviation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2012

Mr. Thompson of Mississippi (for himself, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Mr. 
  Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Richmond) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to require that individuals 
   seeking training in the operation of certain aircraft be checked 
  against the terrorist watchlist to ensure that such individuals are 
                        non-threats to aviation.

    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 ``Flight School Security Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT INDIVIDUALS SEEKING FLIGHT TRAINING ARE 
              CHECKED AGAINST THE TERRORIST WATCHLIST.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 44939 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (F) of 
        paragraph (1) as clauses (i) through (vi), respectively;
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
        subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
            (3) by striking ``12,500 pounds'' and inserting ``12,500 
        pounds--'';
            (4) by inserting before subparagraph (A), as redesignated 
        by paragraph (2) of this subsection, a new paragraph (2);
            (5) by moving the text beginning with ``to an'' and all 
        that follows through ``only if--'' to such paragraph (2);
            (6) by inserting before such paragraph (2) the following 
        new paragraph (1):
            ``(1) an individual seeking such training only upon receipt 
        of information from the Assistant Secretary that--
                    ``(A) the individual has been checked against the 
                terrorist watchlist to ascertain if the individual is a 
                threat to aviation; and
                    ``(B) the Assistant Secretary has determined that 
                the individual is a non-threat to aviation; and''; and
            (7) in the subsection heading by striking ``Waiting 
        Period.--'' and inserting ``Requirements; Waiting Period.--''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of 
subsection (a) of section 44949, as redesignated by subsection (a), is 
amended by striking ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``subparagraph 
(A)''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall apply with respect to an individual seeking flight training on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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