{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-5574","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 5574","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"TRANSLATE Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To require the TSA to develop a plan to ensure that TSA material disseminated in major airports can be better understood by more people accessing such airports, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To require the TSA to develop a plan to ensure that TSA material disseminated in major airports can be better understood by more people accessing such airports, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"TSA Reaching Across Nationalities, Societies, and Languages to Advance Traveler Education Act"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"TRANSLATE Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"TRANSLATE Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"TRANSLATE 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Accountability Office review of the implementation.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5574/text/eh#H1D7781E775DF47C89EF3F4E28B0EB35A"}]},"core_areas":["TSA communication materials in Category X and Category I airports","Language access and communication for people with vision or hearing impairments"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the TSA Administrator to submit to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, within 180 days after enactment, a plan to help more people understand TSA material in major airports.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5574/text/eh#H1D7781E775DF47C89EF3F4E28B0EB35A"}},{"text":"Requires the plan to identify the most common languages other than English that are the primary languages of people who travel through or work in each major airport.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 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H.R. 5574, 117th Congress: TRANSLATE Act. House: 369 Yea, 49 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 18 Nov 2021."}}