Abolish TSA Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced
Summary
Abolishing the TSA and shifting aviation security to private screeners and FAA oversight. This bill would end the Transportation Security Administration three years after enactment and force a DHS plan to move airport screening to qualified private companies while creating an Office of Aviation Security Oversight inside the Federal Aviation Administration.
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- TSA employees. Operations and personnel would be reduced and transferred until no TSA screening activities remain, and aviation security equipment and related assets would move to private screeners or other agencies.
- Airports, travelers, and private screeners. Airport screening would be handled by qualified private screening companies under revised rules, and the plan may not require contractors to perform warrantless searches.
- Surface transportation and oversight. Mass transit, freight rail, highways, and pipeline security functions would transfer to the Department of Transportation. DHS must provide progress reports to the Comptroller General and Congress starting within 60 days and the Comptroller General must report to Congress every 180 days. Congress must approve the reorganization plan by joint resolution.
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End the TSA after three years
If enacted, this bill would end the Transportation Security Administration three years after enactment. This would remove the TSA as the federal agency responsible for aviation security on that date. Airports, TSA workers, private screening firms, and travelers would be affected. The bill does not itself provide money or all operational details for replacement screening.
Shift airport screening to private firms
If enacted, DHS would have 90 days to send Congress a reorganization plan. The plan would create an Office of Aviation Security Oversight inside the FAA whose employees may not do airport screening. The plan would require rapid transfer of all screening activities and equipment to qualified private screening companies and proportional reductions of TSA operations and staff until none remain. The plan must also transfer surface-transportation security roles to DOT, forbid extending the three-year abolition date, and forbid requiring contractors to do warrantless searches.
Fast congressional review of plan
If enacted, the bill would create a special joint-resolution process for Congress to approve the reorganization plan. A resolution must be introduced by the first session day after the plan is sent. Committees must report or be discharged in set timeframes and debate and certain delays would be limited. Senate debate on any veto message would be capped at 10 hours.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Lee, Mike [R-UT]
UT • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
AL • R
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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