Sponsors (2)
The bill speeds and simplifies baggage transfers and accepts trusted foreign screening to reduce delays and costs, but it increases reliance on foreign screening and international image-sharing—raising security, privacy, and potential cost‑shift risks for passengers and carriers.
Airline passengers on through itineraries will have checked bags transferred onto connecting U.S. flights without repeat TSA re-screening, reducing connection delays and the risk of lost checked baggage.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will receive timely baggage images that meet its requirements, enabling more targeted inspections and reducing unnecessary secondary screening for most travelers.
Airlines and taxpayers may see lower duplicative screening costs and operational burden when trusted foreign screening under aviation security agreements is accepted and standards are met.
Traveling passengers could face increased security risk if foreign screening or transferred images fail to detect threats and bags bypass additional TSA re‑screening on U.S. segments.
Passengers may have privacy and data‑handling concerns because baggage image transmission and storage increase the amount of sensitive traveler data shared internationally.
Foreign airports and carriers will face new operational and IT burdens to provide timely image transfers to CBP, which could raise costs, cause implementation delays, or lead to fees passed on to passengers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows one-stop transfer of checked baggage screened at participating foreign airports onto additional U.S. flights without repeat TSA re-screening if four security and CBP-information conditions are met and extends a referenced period from six to ten.
Allows the TSA, working with CBP, to permit checked baggage that was screened at participating foreign last-point-of-departure airports to continue on additional U.S. flights or flight segments without a second TSA re-screening if specified security and handling conditions are met. Also extends a referenced program period by replacing “six” with “ten.” The change applies to baggage arriving on direct flights or flight segments from participating foreign airports, requires use of approved explosives detection screening, limits passenger access to checked bags until final destination, mandates timely transfer of baggage images to CBP, and requires that CBP has not flagged the passenger or baggage for further inspection.
Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize an extension of a program to permit screened passengers and their property arriving on direct flights or flight segments originating at certain foreign last point of departure airports to continue on additional flights or flight segments originating in the United States without additional screening, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 23, 2026 by Carlos A. Gimenez · Last progress June 23, 2026