---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 1206"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "1206"
heading: "Use of transportation security card in hazmat licensing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/1206"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Transportation Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Surface Transportation Security"
  - "Part D — Hazardous Material and Pipeline Security"
---

# §1206. Use of transportation security card in hazmat licensing

- (1) **Background check—** An individual who has a valid transportation employee identification card issued by the [Secretary](/usc/6/1101.md?p=2) under [section 70105 of title 46](/usc/46/70105.md) shall be deemed to have met the background records check required under [section 5103a of title 49](/usc/49/5103a.md).
- (2) **State review—** Nothing in this section prevents or preempts a [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) from conducting a criminal records check of an individual that has applied for a license to operate a motor vehicle transporting in commerce a hazardous material.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1556(b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 475.)