# Plain Language Summary: Emerging Digital Identity Ecosystem Report Act of 2024

This bill asks the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to study and write a report about digital identity systems that could be used in transportation. Think of digital identity as a secure, digital version of your ID that could potentially replace or supplement physical documents like driver's licenses or passports. The TSA has six months to complete this report and send it to Congress.

The report needs to explain what digital identity systems currently exist, what new ones might be coming, and how they could help with security and safety in transportation. The TSA should look at both the benefits and the risks of these systems—for example, how they might make airport security faster and easier, but also what privacy or security concerns they might create. The agency also needs to figure out how these systems could give the United States a competitive advantage compared to other countries that might be developing similar technology.

To make sure the report is thorough and realistic, the TSA is supposed to get input from private companies (like airlines and tech firms), as well as state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. This means the report won't just be the government's perspective—it will include what businesses and local authorities think about digital identity systems too. Essentially, this bill is about gathering information and understanding the landscape of digital identity technology before the government makes any major decisions about how to use it in transportation.

Emerging Digital Identity Ecosystem Report Act of 2024

Higgins, Clay

Emerging Digital Identity Ecosystem Report Act of 2024This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration to submit a report to Congress on digital identity ecosystems and the homeland security value of these ecosystems in the transportation sector.