Title 6 — Domestic Security
Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 513. Federal air marshal program
Statutory text
Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
Limitation on statutory construction
Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title XIV § 1402(c) · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 513
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XIV, § 1402(c), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2305.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XIV, § 1402(c), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2305.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Federal Air Marshal Program.— (1) Sense of congress.— It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security. (2) Limitation on statutory construction.— Nothing in this Act, including any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in par. (2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, , 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Reference to Under Secretary of Transportation for Security deemed to refer to Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, see section 1994 of Pub. L. 115–254, set out as a note under section 114 of Title 49, Transportation.