49 U.S.C. § 44909 — Passenger manifests

(a) Air carriers. (1) The Secretary of Transportation must require each air carrier to give a passenger manifest to an appropriate State Department representative within one hour after being told of an aviation disaster outside the United States involving that flight, or as quickly as possible and no later than three hours if one-hour compliance is not technologically feasible or reasonable. (2) The manifest should list each passenger’s full name, passport number if travel requires one, and a contact’s name and telephone number. (3) The Secretary must consider whether carriers should collect this information as a condition of boarding. (b) Foreign carriers. The Secretary must consider imposing comparable requirements on foreign carriers. (c) Flights to the United States. (1) Each air or foreign air carrier operating a passenger flight to the United States must electronically give the CBP Commissioner a passenger-and-crew manifest with paragraph (2) information. A carrier may use the advance passenger information system under section 431 of the Tariff Act of 1930. (2) The manifest must contain each passenger’s and crew member’s full name, birth date and citizenship, sex, passport number and issuing country when required for travel, United States visa or resident-alien-card number when applicable, and other information the TSA Administrator, consulting CBP, reasonably needs for aviation safety. (3) Carriers must provide passenger-name-record information to Customs on request. (4) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), the manifest must be sent to Customs before landing, in the time, manner, and form Customs prescribes. (5) On request, information given to TSA or Customs may be shared with other Federal agencies to protect national security. (6) International prescreening. (A) The Homeland Security Secretary or designee must propose a rule allowing DHS, before departure, to compare information for any international flight to or from the United States with the Federal Government’s consolidated and integrated terrorist watchlist. (B) The Secretary must create a timely and fair appeal process for people identified as threats and let them correct wrong information. The process must also create records of people wrongly identified and later corrected, with information the Secretary decides is needed to authenticate their identities and prevent repeated delays.