---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 2304"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "2304"
heading: "Prohibited personnel practices affecting the Transportation Security Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/2304"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart A — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 23 — Merit System Principles"
---

# §2304. Prohibited personnel practices affecting the Transportation Security Administration

- (a) **In General.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any individual holding or applying for a [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) within the Transportation Security [Administration](/usc/5/9801.md?p=1) shall be covered by—
  - (1) the provisions of [section 2302(b)(1)](/usc/5/2302.md?p=b-1), (8), and (9);
  - (2) any provision of law implementing [section 2302(b)(1)](/usc/5/2302.md?p=b-1), (8), or (9) by providing any right or remedy available to an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) or applicant for employment in the civil [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26); and
  - (3) any rule or regulation prescribed under any provision of law referred to in paragraph [(1)](#a-1) or [(2)](#a-2).
- (b) **Rule of Construction.—** Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any rights, apart from those described in [subsection (a)](#a), to which an individual described in [subsection (a)](#a) might otherwise be entitled under law.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–199, title I, § 109(a)(2), Nov. 27, 2012, 126 Stat. 1470.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2304 was renumbered section 2305 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 112–199, title I, § 109(c), Nov. 27, 2012, 126 Stat. 1471, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [enacting this section and renumbering sections 2304 and 2305 of this title as sections 2305 and 2306, respectively, of this title] shall take effect on the date of enactment of this section [Nov. 27, 2012].”