STILL IMAGES.

SEC. 1104. STILL IMAGES. (a) Still Images, Voice Recorders, and Video Recorders.— (1) Cockpit recordings and transcripts.—Section 1114(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); (B) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, by inserting “References to information in making safety recommendations.—” before “This”; and (C) in paragraph (1)— (i) in the first sentence, by striking “The Board” and inserting “Confidentiality of recordings.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Board”; and (ii) by amending the second sentence to read as follows: “(2) Exception.—Subject to subsections (b) and (g), the Board shall make public any part of a transcript, any written depiction of visual information obtained from a video recorder, or any still image obtained from a video recorder the Board decides is relevant to the accident or incident— “(A) if the Board holds a public hearing on the accident or incident, at the time of the hearing; or “(B) if the Board does not hold a public hearing, at the time a majority of the other factual reports on the accident or incident are placed in the public docket.” . (2) Surface vehicle recordings and transcripts.—Section 1114(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and (B) in paragraph (1)— (i) in the first sentence, by striking “The Board” and inserting “Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Board”; and (ii) by amending the second sentence to read as follows: “(2) Exception.—Subject to subsections (b) and (g), the Board shall make public any part of a transcript, any written depiction of visual information obtained from a video recorder, or any still image obtained from a video recorder the Board decides is relevant to the accident— “(A) if the Board holds a public hearing on the accident, at the time of the hearing; or “(B) if the Board does not hold a public hearing, at the time a majority of the other factual reports on the accident are placed in the public docket.” . (3) Privacy protections.—Section 1114 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “(g) Privacy Protections.—Before making public any still image obtained from a video recorder under subsection (c)(2) or subsection (d)(2), the Board shall take such action as appropriate to protect from public disclosure any information that readily identifies an individual, including a decedent.” . (b) Cockpit and Surface Vehicle Recordings and Transcripts.—Section 1154(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the heading, by striking “Transcripts and Recordings” and inserting “In General”; (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, the following: “(A) any still image that the National Transportation Safety Board has not made available to the public under section 1114(c) or 1114(d) of this title;” ; (3) in paragraph (3)— (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “recorder recording” and inserting “recorder recording, including with regard to a video recording any still image that the National Transportation Safety Board 132 STAT. 3431 has not made available to the public under section 1114(c) or 1114(d) of this title,”; and (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking “recorder recording” and inserting “recorder recording, including with regard to a video recording any still image that the National Transportation Safety Board has not made available to the public under section 1114(c) or 1114(d) of this title,”; (4) in paragraph (4)— (A) in subparagraph (A)— (i) by inserting “a still image or” before “a part of a cockpit”; and (ii) by striking “the part of the transcript or the recording” each place it appears and inserting “the still image, the part of the transcript, or the recording”; (B) in subparagraph (B)— (i) by inserting “a still image or” before “a part of a cockpit”; and (ii) by striking “the part of the transcript or the recording” each place it appears and inserting “the still image, the part of the transcript, or the recording”; and (5) in paragraph (6)— (A) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: “(B) Still image.—The term ‘still image’ means any still image obtained from a video recorder.” .