Development of guidelines and procedures to improve access to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program

(a) In general The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall develop guidelines to improve returning citizens’ access to the TWIC program. (b) Guidelines Not later than 1 one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall develop the following guidelines relating to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program: (1) To improve access of returning citizens to the TWIC program. (2) To assist individuals in custody of Federal, State, and local prisons who are incarcerated in pre-applying or preparing applications for TWIC cards and guidelines to cards. (3) To assist individuals requesting an appeal or waiver of preliminary determination determinations of ineligibility for TWIC cards. (c) (b) Briefing Not later than 1 year 180 days after the date development of enactment the guidelines described in subsection (a), the Administrator of this Act, the Transportation Security Administration of the United States shall brief Congress on improvements to addressing access to the TWIC program. (d) Transmission The clerk of the House of Representatives shall transit a copy of this Act to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Commerce, Science, and Pensions of the Senate, the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, and the presiding officers of the Senate on the implementation of this section. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Returning citizens The term returning citizens means individuals released from incarceration and House otherwise eligible for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. (2) Transportation Worker Identification Credential The term Transportation Worker Identification Credential means a Transportation Worker Identification Credential issued in accordance with section 70105 of Representatives of the title 46, United States.States Code.