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The bill strengthens hygiene protections and oversight for infant items at airport security—better protecting infants and standardizing practices—but it may increase screening times, impose costs on airports/contractors (possibly passed to travelers), and leave short-term gaps if guidance isn’t uniformly enforced.
Parents and caregivers (and their infants): TSA will re-screen breast milk, formula, infant water, and cooling accessories, lowering contamination risk and better protecting infant health.
Parents, caregivers, and airport screening personnel: TSA must issue clear procedures within 90 days and update them every five years, reducing uncertainty and improving consistency of screening practices across airports.
Parents and transportation workers: Screening standards will apply to private screening contractors as well as TSA staff, promoting uniform protections for infant items regardless of who conducts screening.
Travelers (including families with infants) and airport staff: New hygienic screening procedures could lengthen security lines and increase wait times if additional testing is required.
Airports, screening contractors, and ultimately travelers/taxpayers: Implementing new hygienic procedures and training may impose costs on airports and contractors that could be passed on to travelers through fees or operational changes.
Parents and caregivers: If TSA guidance is not enforced uniformly across airports, some travelers may still face contamination risks or inconsistent treatment until the OIG audit identifies problems.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires TSA to issue hygiene-focused re-screening guidance for breast milk, formula, infant water/juice and cooling accessories within 90 days and directs an IG audit within one year.
Requires the TSA Administrator to issue guidance within 90 days to reduce contamination risk when breast milk, baby formula, infant water, juice, and cooling accessories are re-screened or subject to additional aviation security screening, and to update that guidance at least every five years as appropriate. Guidance must be developed with nationally recognized maternal health organizations, set hygienic standards, and apply to TSA and private screening personnel; the DHS Inspector General must audit compliance and report to Congress within one year, including how screening technologies affect denial rates for these items.
Official title: Amend the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act to require hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula by security screening personnel of the Transportation Security Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 27, 2025 by Tammy Duckworth · Last progress November 25, 2025