Airport security expands private screening at 14 airports through 2031.
H.R. 9391 — Reimbursable Screening Services Program Extension Act of 2026 · Filed by Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 23, 2026 · Passed chamber
Your members of Congress
Enter a ZIP to see where your representative and both senators stood on this bill.
Looked up on this device — your ZIP is never stored on our servers.
What it does
The bill extends a program that lets airports hire private companies. These companies screen passengers instead of TSA workers. The program grows from 8 airports to 14 airports. It runs through 2031. Private screening contractors are paid by the airport.
Who it affects
Travelers at 14 airports will go through security screening done by private workers. Airport operators will have more control over their screening staff. TSA workers may have fewer jobs at these airports.
One thing to notice
The bill does not set specific safety rules or test scores for private screening contractors. It does not say how the program will be checked.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 23, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 23, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Homeland Security and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 0”
- Jul 13, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4392-4393)”
- Jul 13, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Garbarino moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
9 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 9 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $5,323,301 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 35 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 89% of bills with any report.
Andrew Garbarino, who sponsored the bill, received $1,897,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Delta Air Lines Inc — $1,460,000 in 1 report
- American Association of Airport Executives — $1,172,100 in 1 report
- U.S. Travel Association — $800,000 in 1 report
- Airports Council International -- North America — $775,201 in 1 report
- American Fed of Government Employees AFL-CIO — $390,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- private screening contractors — Private companies hired to check passengers and bags at airport security.
- TSA — Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency that runs airport security.
- screening — The process of checking passengers and their bags at airport security.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (715 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
“Airport security expands private screening at 14 airports through 2031.” QuorumCivic. https://share.quorumcivic.app/bill/119/hr9391/simple Report an error