Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act

Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing any change to the prohibited items list of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that would permit passengers to carry small, non-locking knives through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas at airports, or on board passenger aircraft.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4368 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4368

   To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from implementing 
 proposed policy changes that would permit passengers to carry small, 
                    non-locking knives on aircraft.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2014

   Mr. Grimm (for himself, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Lipinski, and Mr. Joyce) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from implementing 
 proposed policy changes that would permit passengers to carry small, 
                    non-locking knives on aircraft.

    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 ``Keep Knives Out of Our Skies Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY CHANGE TO PERMIT SMALL, 
              NON-LOCKING KNIVES ON AIRCRAFT.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security may not implement any change to the prohibited items list of 
the Transportation Security Administration that would permit passengers 
to carry small, non-locking knives through passenger screening 
checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas at airports, or onboard 
passenger aircraft.
    (b) Prohibited Items List Defined.--In this section, the term 
``prohibited items list'' means the list of items passengers are 
prohibited from carrying as accessible property or on their persons 
through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile areas 
at airports, and onboard passenger aircraft pursuant to section 
1540.111 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
January 1, 2013).
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