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The bill increases hygiene protections and consistent screening rules for infant feeding items—improving infant safety and oversight—but may slow screenings, impose costs on airports/contractors (and potentially travelers), and create short-term variability until enforcement and audits take effect.
Parents and caregivers of infants will face lower contamination risk because TSA will re-screen breast milk, formula, infant water, and cooling accessories using hygienic procedures, protecting infants' health.
Parents, caregivers, and transportation workers will get clearer, more consistent screening rules because TSA must issue procedures within 90 days and update them every five years, reducing uncertainty across airports and screening providers.
Parents and transportation workers will have uniform protections for infant items because the standards apply to private screening contractors as well as TSA staff.
Travelers (including families with infants) may experience longer security lines because new hygienic screening procedures could lengthen screening times.
Airports and private screening contractors may incur new costs for hygienic procedures and training that could be passed on to travelers or taxpayers through higher fees or operational changes.
Parents and caregivers could still face inconsistent protection in the short term if TSA guidance is not uniformly enforced across airports until the OIG audit is completed.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires TSA guidance (within 90 days) and periodic updates to minimize contamination risk when certain infant liquids and cooling accessories are re-screened, and requires an IG audit within one year.
Requires the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to issue guidance within 90 days to reduce contamination risk when breast milk, baby formula, purified/deionized infant water, juice, and cooling accessories (ice packs, freezer packs, gel packs) are re-screened or otherwise subjected to additional aviation security screening. The guidance must be developed with nationally recognized maternal health organizations, set hygienic standards for additional testing, apply to TSA and private security personnel, and be updated at least every five years. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General must deliver an audit to Congress within one year on compliance and on how screening technologies affect screening and denial rates for these items.
Introduced January 27, 2025 by Tammy Duckworth · Last progress November 25, 2025