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Aviation Employee Screening and Security Enhancement Act of 2017
(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct, and submit to Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a cost and feasibility study of a statistically significant number of Category I, II, III, IV, and X airports assessing the impact if all airport employee access points from non-secured to secured airport areas are comprised of the following:
a secure door utilizing card and pin entry or biometric technology;
The GAO shall assess the completed study and report the results to Congress.
(Sec. 4) The TSA shall:
work with air carriers, foreign air carriers, airport operators, labor unions representing credentialed airport employees, and the TSA's Aviation Security Advisory Committee to enhance security awareness of credentialed airport workers regarding insider threats to aviation security and best practices related to airport access controls;
(Sec. 5) The TSA shall also:
work with airport operators and the TSA Advisory Committee to identify advanced technologies for securing employee access to secured and sterile airport areas;
House Apr 25, 2017
Aviation Employee Screening and Security Enhancement Act of 2017
Passed · Two-thirds required
409 Yea 0 Nay 21 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 876 and vote against it. 8 signed when it was filed.
(Sec. 6) The DHS is the lead interagency coordinator to insider threat investigations and mitigation efforts at airports.
(Sec. 7) The TSA shall submit a plan to conduct recurring reviews of the operational security controls for TSA information technology systems at airports.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 876 as passed House amended on Apr 25, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Organizations that named H.R. 876 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
82 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.