TSA Commuting Fairness Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The TSA Commuting Fairness Act requires the TSA Administrator to study whether time spent by TSA employees traveling between regular duty locations and airport parking lots or bus and transit stops should count as on-duty hours. The study is due within 270 days to the House Homeland Security Committee, Senate Commerce Committee, and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. TSA must consider the time employees spend moving between duty locations and parking or transit stops at small, medium, and large hub airports; average commuting time outside that airport movement; potential benefits to employees and TSA; feasibility of mobile phones, location data, or other reporting methods; estimated costs, including whether those hours would count as basic pay for retirement; and other issues the Administrator considers appropriate.
Who Benefits and How
TSA employees at airports benefit because the study could support treating parking-lot or transit-stop travel time as paid on-duty time. Transportation security officers at large hub airports benefit if the study documents long internal airport travel times before or after screening work. TSA workforce planners benefit from data on potential morale, retention, staffing, and operational effects. Congressional oversight committees benefit from a concrete cost and feasibility record before considering a benefit change.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Transportation Security Administration must collect commute-time information, analyze airport-size differences, evaluate reporting technology, and estimate pay and retirement costs. The TSA Administrator must submit the study within 270 days. Federal budget planners may face future cost pressure if the study supports treating travel time as duty hours. TSA employees may face privacy concerns if mobile phones or location data are evaluated as reporting tools.
Key Provisions
- Requires a TSA feasibility study within 270 days.
- Requires analysis of TSA employee travel between duty locations and airport parking lots or transit stops.
- Requires comparison across small hub, medium hub, and large hub airports.
- Requires assessment of potential benefits to TSA employees and the agency.
- Requires evaluation of mobile phone, location data, or other reporting methods.
- Requires estimated costs, including treatment as basic pay for retirement purposes.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the TSA Administrator to submit within 270 days a feasibility study on treating airport TSA employees' travel time between regular duty locations and airport parking lots or bus and transit stops as on-duty hours, including commute-time data across small, medium, and large hub airports, potential benefits, mobile or location-data reporting methods, costs, retirement-credit effects, and other relevant considerations.
Key Policy Areas
Transportation Security, Federal Workforce, Labor
Primary Purpose
Requires the TSA Administrator to submit within 270 days a feasibility study on treating airport TSA employees' travel time between regular duty locations and airport parking lots or bus and transit stops as on-duty hours, including commute-time data across small, medium, and large hub airports, potential benefits, mobile or location-data reporting methods, costs, retirement-credit effects, and other relevant considerations.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- TSA employees at airports
- Transportation security officers at large hub airports
- TSA workforce planners
- Congressional oversight committees
Identified Costs
- Transportation Security Administration
- TSA Administrator
- Federal budget planners
- TSA employees with location-data concerns
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1048-1049)
Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional oversight committees, Transportation Security Administration
Positive-direction: Congressional oversight committees
Negative-direction: Transportation Security Administration
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "administrator"
- → Transportation Security Administration Administrator
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