What a yes vote endorsed
SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
What this does
This bill amends federal aviation law to steer revenue from the 9/11 Security Fee into aviation security accounts. Beginning in fiscal year 2028, the first $500 million collected each year is directed into the Aviation Security Capital Fund, and the TSA Administrator is required to set the fee so as to collect at least that amount. It creates a new Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund inside the Department of Homeland Security and directs the next $250 million each year into it to buy and sustain airport checkpoint screening technology. It also records the sense of Congress that the fee should pay only for aviation security and that diverting the money to unrelated purposes should end by 2027.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 7 sourced claims
- The bill amends title 49 to direct 9/11 Security Fee revenue into aviation security accounts.Source: Sec. 3
- Beginning in fiscal year 2028, the first $500 million collected each year is deposited into the Aviation Security Capital Fund.Source: Sec. 3(a)
- The TSA Administrator is required to set the fee so as to collect at least $500 million each of those fiscal years for that Fund.Source: Sec. 3(a)
- The bill creates a new Aviation Security Checkpoint Technology Fund within the Department of Homeland Security.Source: Sec. 3(b)
- Beginning in fiscal year 2028, the next $250 million each year is deposited into the new fund to test, buy, deploy, install, and sustain checkpoint screening technology.Source: Sec. 3(b)
- Congress records the sense that the fee should fund only aviation security and that diversion of the revenue to other purposes should end no later than 2027.Source: Sec. 2
- The measure concerns a single subject, reserving 9/11 Security Fee revenue for aviation security funds.Source: Sec. 2, Sec. 3
Reported lobbying
At least
16
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 22 quarterly reports filed by 13 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
7 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 2378, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
- SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
- CITY OF AUSTIN
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES
- RHODE ISLAND AIRPORT CORPORATION
Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 11 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: the extract keeps five names per measure and no ranking is available.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.