No Knives on Planes Act of 2017

No Knives on Planes Act of 2017

This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from implementing 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.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3735 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3735

To prohibit the implementation of a policy change to permit small, non-
          locking knives on aircraft, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2017

Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Bost, Ms. Speier, Ms. 
  Gabbard, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Donovan) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the implementation of a policy change to permit small, non-
          locking knives on aircraft, 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 Knives on Planes Act of 2017''.

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 on board 
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 on board passenger aircraft pursuant to section 
1540.111 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.
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