- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: March 26, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 4788. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Transportation Security
Administration Pay Act of 2026”.
SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer, from the
unobligated balances of amounts previously appropriated under
section 100052 of Public Law 119-21, such sums as may be
necessary to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay
differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable
on a regular basis to employees of the Transportation
Security Administration for the period beginning on February
14, 2026 and ending on the last day during which interim or
full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 are not in
effect.
SEC. 3. LIMITATION TO INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY LAPSE IN
APPROPRIATIONS.
Amounts transferred pursuant to section 2 may not be used
to provide pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, or
other payments to an employee of the Transportation Security
Administration for any portion of the period described in
section 2 for which the employee is provided with such pay,
allowances, pay differentials, benefits, or other payments
using amounts other than amounts provided under section 2.
SEC. 4. TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other
payments provided by the Transportation Security
Administration using amounts transferred pursuant to section
2 shall be subject to the requirements, authorities,
conditions, and limitations applicable with respect to the
provision of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits,
and other payments by the Transportation Security
Administration under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations
and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4; 139 Stat. 9).
SEC. 5. TERMINATION.
Amounts transferred pursuant to section 2 shall remain
available beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act
and ending on the earliest of—
(a) the date of the enactment of an Act of Congress that
appropriates amounts for any purpose described in section 2;
(b) the date of the enactment of an Act of Congress of the
applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or
other Act without any appropriation for any such purpose; or
(c) September 30, 2026.
SEC. 6. RETROACTIVE EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect as if this Act had been enacted
on February 13, 2026.