FASTER Act
Summary
Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act This bill repeals the requirement that a portion of aviation security service fees collected from passengers be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. It requires such fees to be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury for expenditure to pay only the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed (i.e., aviation security screening).
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 13, 2021
Last action Sep 13, 2021
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Sep 13, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
upper
Sep 13, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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