TSA Loose Change Act

TSA Loose Change Act - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA] ) to transfer annually, based on requests for proposals, unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that operate multiple airport centers throughout the United States to provide places of rest and recuperation for Armed Forces members and their families. (Currently, such moneys are retained by the TSA for civil aviation security.)

Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 to repeal the requirement that the TSA Administrator report annually to Congress on how unclaimed money is being used to provide civil aviation security. Requires the Administrator, instead, to report on the amount of money transferred to nonprofit organizations.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1095 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1095

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) 
 to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints 
to nonprofit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation 
at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2013

     Mr. Miller of Florida (for himself and Mr. Rogers of Alabama) 
 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 direct the Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) 
 to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints 
to nonprofit organizations that provide places of rest and recuperation 
at airports for members of the Armed Forces and their families, 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. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED MONEY RECOVERED AT AIRPORT SECURITY 
              CHECKPOINTS.

    (a) Disposition of Unclaimed Money.--Section 44945 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ``shall be retained by the 
Transportation Security Administration'' and all that follows before 
the period at the end and inserting ``shall be annually transferred, 
without further appropriation, by the Assistant Secretary to nonprofit 
organizations that operate airport centers in multiple locations 
throughout the United States to provide a place of rest and 
recuperation for members of the Armed Forces and their families''.
    (b) Annual Report.--Section 515(b) of the Department of Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-334; 118 Stat. 1318; 
49 U.S.C. 44945 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the Committee on Transportation and 
        Infrastructure of the House of Representatives'' and inserting 
        ``the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
        Representatives''; and
            (2) by striking ``and specifically how the unclaimed money 
        is being used to provide civil aviation security'' and 
        inserting ``and the amount of unclaimed money transferred to 
        nonprofit organizations under section 44945 of title 49, United 
        States Code, and the dates of such transfers''.
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