Hygienic Handling of Breast Milk and Baby Formula During Aviation Security Screening
Section 2 · Sec. 2 ·
What this chapter is about
This part adds two new parts to an older law. That law deals with screening at airports. One new part tells the TSA to write rules. The rules must keep breast milk and baby formula clean. The other new part asks for a check on how the rules are met.
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act (Public Law 114-293) is amended by adding at the end the following new sections:”
The whole of section 2 hangs off this one instruction. It names the statute it changes, the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act (Public Law 114-293), and adds two new sections at the end of it, numbered 3 and 4. Everything recorded below is the text of those two new sections. This Act does not state what the older statute already provides.
What the document actually says
“The Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act (Public Law 114-293) is amended by adding at the end the following new sections:”
That sentence, in plain words
This part reaches back to an older law. It adds two new parts to the end of it.
What this is about
A new law can add to a law that came before it. The two new parts are set out below. This law does not say what the older law says.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section and every five years thereafter, if appropriate, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall issue or update, as the case may be, guidance to minimize the risk for contamination”
The opening of new section 3. The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration has 90 days from enactment to issue the guidance, and returns to it every five years thereafter, if appropriate, to issue or update it. Four requirements are then placed on the guidance, and each is recorded separately below. The Act does not set out the content of the guidance itself.
What the document actually says
“Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section and every five years thereafter, if appropriate, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall issue or update, as the case may be, guidance to minimize the risk for contamination”
That sentence, in plain words
The head of the TSA has to write guidance. It is due 90 days after this part starts. After that it comes up again every five years.
What this is about
Guidance is a set of written rules for staff. The goal is to keep germs off the milk. The law does not say what the rules must say word for word.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“of any breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice (as well as ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool breast milk, baby formula, and juice) that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening.”
The rest of the same sentence, setting the reach of the guidance. Four things are named, breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice, along with the ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool them. The guidance reaches those items where they are subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening.
What the document actually says
“of any breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice (as well as ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool breast milk, baby formula, and juice) that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening.”
That sentence, in plain words
The rules cover breast milk and baby formula. They cover clean water for babies and juice. They also cover ice packs and gel packs that keep those cold.
What this is about
Screening happens when people go through an airport check point. Sometimes a bag or an item gets checked a second time. That extra check is when these rules apply.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“be developed in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations;”
The first of the four requirements placed on the guidance by new section 3. It is to be developed in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations. The Act names no organization and does not say what form the consultation takes.
What the document actually says
“be developed in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations;”
That sentence, in plain words
The TSA cannot write the guidance on its own. It has to talk with groups that work on the health of mothers.
What this is about
The law does not name any group. It says only that the groups be known across the country. It also does not say how the talks must go.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“ensure adherence to hygienic standards, as established by the Administrator, in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations;”
The second requirement. The guidance is to ensure adherence to hygienic standards. The standards are not set out in this Act: they are established by the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, again in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations.
What the document actually says
“ensure adherence to hygienic standards, as established by the Administrator, in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations;”
That sentence, in plain words
The guidance has to make staff follow clean handling rules. The head of the TSA sets those rules. Again, groups that work on the health of mothers help.
What this is about
The law does not spell the clean handling rules out. It leaves them to the head of the TSA. So a reader will not find them here.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“ensure that, when any such re-screening or additional screening requires additional testing, such testing so adheres to such standards, to so minimize such risk;”
The third requirement, and it reaches the case where a re-screening or additional screening requires additional testing. The guidance is to ensure that such testing adheres to the hygienic standards named in the requirement above, to minimize the risk of contamination. The Act does not describe the testing or name any method.
What the document actually says
“ensure that, when any such re-screening or additional screening requires additional testing, such testing so adheres to such standards, to so minimize such risk;”
That sentence, in plain words
Sometimes an extra check means a test on the item itself. The test has to follow the same clean handling rules.
What this is about
The point is to keep the risk of germs low. The law does not say what the test is. It does not say what tools get used.
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The document says “shall apply”Who acts: Administrator of the Transportation Security AdministrationHow: guidanceSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“apply to security screening personnel of the Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening pursuant to section 44920 of title 49, United States Code.”
The fourth requirement, which sets who the guidance applies to. It reaches two groups: security screening personnel of the Transportation Security Administration, and personnel of private security companies providing security screening pursuant to section 44920 of title 49, United States Code. This Act does not state what that section provides.
What the document actually says
“apply to security screening personnel of the Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening pursuant to section 44920 of title 49, United States Code.”
That sentence, in plain words
The guidance covers TSA staff who screen people. It also covers staff at private firms that do the same job.
What this is about
Some airports hire a private firm to screen. A part of the United States Code lets them do that. This law names that part but does not say what it holds.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Inspector General of the Department of Homeland SecurityHow: reportSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing an audit of compliance with the requirements of sections 2 and 3.”
The whole of new section 4. Within one year of enactment the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security submits a report to two committees, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The report contains an audit of compliance with the requirements of sections 2 and 3 of the amended Act. Section 3 is the section added just above; section 2 belongs to the older Act, which is not indexed here.
What the document actually says
“Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing an audit of compliance with the requirements of sections 2 and 3.”
That sentence, in plain words
A watchdog inside Homeland Security has to check the work. Then it has to send a report to two groups in Congress. The report is due one year after this part starts.
What this is about
An audit is a close look at whether rules got met. Two parts of the older law are checked. One of them is the new part added just above.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Inspector General of the Department of Homeland SecurityHow: reportSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Such audit shall also include information relating to the effect of various types of screening technologies, including bottled liquid scanners, on the screening of breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice”
The first of two further things the audit is to include. It covers the effect of various types of screening technologies on the screening of the same items new section 3 names, and one technology is named in the text, bottled liquid scanners. As with the guidance, the items are reached where they are subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening.
What the document actually says
“Such audit shall also include information relating to the effect of various types of screening technologies, including bottled liquid scanners, on the screening of breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice”
That sentence, in plain words
The audit also has to look at the machines used. One kind is named. It scans liquid in a bottle.
What this is about
Airports use more than one kind of machine. The audit asks how each one affects the check. The items are the same ones named above.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Inspector General of the Department of Homeland SecurityHow: reportSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“the rate at which such items are denied entry into the sterile area (as such term is defined in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations).”
The second further thing the audit is to include: the rate at which the items named are denied entry into the sterile area. The Act does not define the sterile area. It points to the definition at section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, which is not indexed here.
What the document actually says
“the rate at which such items are denied entry into the sterile area (as such term is defined in section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations).”
That sentence, in plain words
The audit also has to count how often these items get turned away. The place they are kept out of has a set name.
What this is about
That name is the sterile area of an airport. A book of federal rules says what it means. This law points to that book and stops there.
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The amending instruction, the guidance that new section 3 requires along with each of the four conditions placed on it, the report and audit that new section 4 requires, and each of the two further things that audit must contain.
Nothing in the section is left out. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.
The section works by adding sections to an older statute, the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act (Public Law 114-293), and that statute is not indexed here. So the site does not record what section 2 of that Act requires, even though the audit reaches compliance with it. The same holds for section 44920 of title 49, United States Code, and for section 1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, both of which this section names without reproducing.
