To amend title 49, United States Code, to require the air transportation security programs established by airport operators to contain certain elements.

United States115th CongressHR-4737House of Representatives
Updated: Jan 29, 2018

Summary

Airport Advanced Logistics, Emergency Response, and Training Act or the Airport ALERT Act This bill requires airport air transportation security programs to include: training focused on active violence response, crowd management, mass evacuation, event recovery, and unified command, that is coordinated with security stakeholders, including all Transportation Security Administration employees at the airport; security and emergency preparedness training for all airport employees; a mass evacuation plan; a risk communications plan; a continuity of operations plan; and a family assistance and customer care plan. For a category X airport (a large airport that requires the highest level of security to address terrorist threats), such programs shall also include an integrated and unified operations center responsible for overseeing and directing security operations for the entire airport that is based on a formalized concept of operations and that provides direction and resources through a unified command structure. For smaller category I through IV airports, such programs shall include a formalized concept of operations and a unified command structure through which direction and resources are provided.

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  1. Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security.

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