TSA Commuting Fairness Act in plain language
1: Short title
This section would allow the Act to be referred to as the "TSA Commuting Fairness Act."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the TSA Commuting Fairness Act .
2: Feasibility study on TSA commuting benefits
This section would require the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, no later than 270 days after this Act becomes law, to submit a study to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. The study would examine whether the time that TSA employees working at airport locations spend traveling between their regular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and transit stops could be treated as on-duty hours. In preparing the study, the Administrator would have to consider, with respect to TSA employees: (1) how much time such employees need to travel between regular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and transit stops at small hub, medium hub, and large hub airports, using the size definitions in section 40102 of title 49 of the United States Code; (2) how much time such employees spend commuting on average, not counting the travel time described in item (1); (3) the potential benefits to employees and to the Administration of treating that travel time as on-duty hours; (4) whether mobile phones, location data, or other means could be used to let employees report their arrival at and departure from the airport parking lots and bus and transit stops; (5) the estimated costs of treating that travel time as on-duty hours, including whether those hours could count as basic pay for retirement purposes; and (6) any other considerations the Administrator determines appropriate.
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2. Feasibility study on TSA commuting benefits (a) In general Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a study on the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the time Transportation Security Administration employees working at airport locations spend traveling between regular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and transit stops. (b) Considerations In conducting the feasibility study required under subsection (a), the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall consider the following with respect to Transportation Security Administration employees: (1) The amount of time needed by such employees to travel between regular duty locations and airport parking lots and bus and transit stops at small hub airports, medium hub airports, and large hub airports (as such terms are defined in section 40102 of title 49, United States Code). (2) The amount of time such employees spend commuting, on average, exclusive of the time described in paragraph (1). (3) The potential benefits to such employees and the Administration of treating as on-duty hours the time described in such paragraph. (4) The feasibility of using mobile phones, location data, and any other means to allow such employees to report their arrival to and departure from the airport parking lots and bus and transit stops concerned. (5) The estimated costs of treating as on-duty hours the time described in such paragraph, including by considering such hours creditable as basic pay for retirement purposes. (6) Other considerations determined appropriate by the Administrator.