To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to extend a requirement for the prescreening of air passengers to international flights that overfly the United States.

Summary

Amends prescreening of international airline passengers provisions to extend the Department of Homeland Security 's (DHS) authority to compare passenger information against the consolidated and integrated terrorist watchlist maintained by the federal government before departure of an international flight to any international flight that overflies the United States (Under current law, DHS is limited to comparing passenger information against a watchlist before departure of any international flight to or from the United States).

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

1. 11 June 2007

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 11 June 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 11 June 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 25 June 2007

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.

   Source: Committee

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

• Introduced in House · 11 June 2007 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 11 June 2007

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 11 June 2007

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 June 2007

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Bill Shuster · R · Sponsor
• · hshm00 · Standing

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.