Helping Heroes Fly Act
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Jul 25, 2013)
Helping Heroes Fly Act - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to develop and implement a process to ease travel and to the extent possible provide expedited passenger screening services for severely injured or disabled Armed Forces members and veterans, and their accompanying family members or nonmedical attendants.
Requires the Assistant Secretary also to maintain an operations center to provide for the movement of such members and veterans through screening before boarding a domestic or foreign passenger aircraft.
Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish and publish certain protocols for severely injured or disabled Armed Forces members and veterans or their family members and others to contact the operations center to request expedited screening services for the member or veteran.
What just happenedJul 25, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateJul 25, 2013
- Jul 25, 2013IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Jul 25, 2013IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate