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To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.
Summary
This bill would change how aviation security fees collected from airline passengers are used by the federal government. Currently, a portion of these security fees are credited to the general Treasury fund to help reduce the federal deficit. The bill would require that all aviation security fee revenues instead be deposited into a separate account dedicated exclusively to paying for aviation security screening and related activities. The security fees would be available to the TSA for expenditure without regard to other budget constraints, as long as they are used for aviation security purposes. This change would redirect security fee revenue away from general federal spending to the specific costs of airport security screening.
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- Sep 11, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. · senate
- Sep 11, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 11, 2025
Mr. Markey (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act” or the “FASTER Act”.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT REGARDING CREDITING AND DEPOSIT OF A PORTION OF AVIATION SECURITY FEES.
(a) Repeal.—Section 44940 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (3);
(2) in subsection (f)—
(A) by striking the heading and all that follows through “title 31,” and inserting “Deposit and Availability of Fee.—Notwithstanding sections 1341, 1512 through 1519, and 3302 of title 31,”;
(B) by striking paragraph (1);
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and
(D) by amending paragraph (1), as so redesignated, to read as follows:
“(1) shall be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury, which shall be available to the Administrator for expenditure notwithstanding any other law, including any provision of section 1341(a)(1) of title 31 (commonly referred to as the ‘Anti-Deficiency Act’), only to pay the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed; and”; and
(3) by striking subsection (i).
(b) Conforming Amendment.—Subsection (d)(4) of such section is amended by striking “, other than subsection (i),”. <all>
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