HR-2843 : Still Just a Bill

TSA PreCheck Expansion Act

This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to:

• establish PreCheck application enrollment standards to add multiple private sector application capabilities for the TSA PreCheck program to increase the public's enrollment access to such program;
• coordinate with interested parties to deploy TSA-approved ready-to-market private sector solutions that meet such standards, make available additional PreCheck enrollment capabilities, and offer secure online and mobile enrollment opportunities;
• partner with the private sector to collect biographic and biometric identification information via secure mobile enrollment platforms to reduce the need to travel to enrollment centers; and
• ensure that any biometric and biographic information is collected in a manner which ensures privacy and data security protections.

The TSA must:

• develop and implement a process for approving private sector marketing of the program and a strategy for partnering with the private sector to encourage enrollment;
• report on any PreCheck fees collected in excess of the costs of administering such program;
• coordinate with the heads of appropriate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components to leverage DHS-held data and technologies to verify the citizenship of individuals who want to enroll;
• partner with the private sector to use advanced biometrics and NIST 800-63-2 identity proofing standards to facilitate enrollment;
• ensure that TSA PreCheck screening lanes are available during peak and high-volume travel times at airports to enrolled individuals;
• provide for expedited screening at standard screening lanes during times when PreCheck screening lanes are closed; and
• ensure that enrolled individuals are vetted through the TSA's terrorist screening databases and develop effective recurrent vetting capabilities for disqualifying criminal offenses.