Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act in plain language
1: Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act .
2: Hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula during aviation security screening
This section would add two new sections to the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act (Public Law 114-293). The first new section, on hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula during aviation security screening, would require the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration to issue guidance within 90 days after this section becomes law, and to update that guidance every five years after that if appropriate, on how to minimize the risk of contamination of breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice, along with the ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs, and other accessories required to cool the breast milk, baby formula, and juice, whenever airport security personnel re-screen these items or give them additional screening. The guidance would have to: be developed together with nationally recognized maternal health organizations; make sure hygienic standards the Administrator sets, also in consultation with those organizations, are followed; make sure that any additional testing done during re-screening or additional screening follows those same hygienic standards, so as to minimize the contamination risk; and apply both to the Administration's own security screening personnel and to employees of private security companies that carry out screening under section 44920 of title 49, United States Code. The second new section, on an Inspector General audit, would require the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, within one year after this section becomes law, to send a report to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The report would have to audit compliance with the requirements of section 2 of the Act and the new guidance section described above. It would also have to cover how different types of screening technology, including bottled liquid scanners, affect the screening of breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice, along with the ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs, and other accessories required to cool the breast milk, baby formula, and juice, when those items are re-screened or given additional screening, and how often such items are denied entry into the sterile area (as that term is defined in section 1540.5 of title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations).
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2. Hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula during aviation security screening The Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act ( Public Law 114–293 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new sections: 3. Hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula during aviation security screening Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section and every five years thereafter, if appropriate, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall issue or update, as the case may be, guidance to minimize the risk for contamination of any breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice (as well as ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool breast milk, baby formula, and juice) that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening. Such guidance shall— (1) be developed in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations; (2) ensure adherence to hygienic standards, as established by the Administrator, in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations; (3) ensure that, when any such re-screening or additional screening requires additional testing, such testing so adheres to such standards, to so minimize such risk; and (4) apply to security screening personnel of the Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening pursuant to section 44920 of title 49, United States Code. 4. Inspector General audit Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing an audit of compliance with the requirements of sections 2 and 3. Such audit shall also include information relating to the effect of various types of screening technologies, including bottled liquid scanners, on the screening of breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice (as well as ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool breast milk, baby formula, and juice) that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening, and the rate at which such items are denied entry into the sterile area (as such term is defined in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations). .