Security Clearance Review Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1591 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1591

 To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 
  to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
 make security clearance determinations and access determinations for 
political appointees and special Government employees in the Executive 
            Office of the President, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2025

   Mr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Magaziner, Ms. 
Norton, Mr. Goldman of New York, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Sanchez, 
    Mr. Lynch, Mr. Takano, Mr. Correa, Mr. Carson, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
Subramanyam, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Scholten, and 
 Mr. Peters) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 
  to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
 make security clearance determinations and access determinations for 
political appointees and special Government employees in the Executive 
            Office of the President, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Security Clearance Review Act''.

SEC. 2. SECURITY CLEARANCE DETERMINATIONS AND ACCESS DETERMINATIONS BY 
              DIRECTOR OF FBI FOR POLITICAL APPOINTEES AND SPECIAL 
              GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE 
              PRESIDENT.

    Section 3001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3341) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(k) Political Appointees and Special Government Employees in the 
Executive Office of the President.--
            ``(1) Appointment and access to classified information.--
        Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
                    ``(A) a political appointee or special Government 
                employee may not be employed in, detailed to, or 
                assigned to, the Executive Office of the President 
                unless such employment, detail, or assignment is 
                clearly consistent with national security; and
                    ``(B) any political appointee or special Government 
                employee employed in, detailed to, or assigned to, the 
                Executive Office of the President may not have a 
                security clearance, or access any classified 
                information, unless such security clearance is granted, 
                or access determination is made, by the Director of the 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation.
            ``(2) Determination and notification.--
                    ``(A) Director.--If the Director of the Federal 
                Bureau of Investigation denies, suspends, or revokes a 
                security clearance or access to classified information 
                under paragraph (1), the Director shall notify the 
                President and the appropriate committees of Congress of 
                such determination on the date such determination is 
                made.
                    ``(B) President.--If the President nullifies, 
                reverses, modifies, or otherwise fails to recognize any 
                denial, suspension, or revocation of a security 
                clearance or access to classified information 
                determination made by the Director under paragraph (1), 
                not later than 30 days thereafter, the President shall 
                submit an explanation (in writing) of the reasons for 
                such nullification, reversal, modification, or failure 
                to recognize to the appropriate committees of Congress.
            ``(3) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Political appointee.--The term `political 
                appointee' has the meaning given that term in section 
                4(a)(4) of the Edward `Ted' Kaufman and Michael Leavitt 
                Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 
                (Public Law 114-136; 5 U.S.C. 3101 note).
                    ``(B) Special government employee.--The term 
                `special Government employee' has the meaning given 
                that term in section 202 of title 18, United States 
                Code.''.
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