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