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Calendar No. 185
118THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION S. 1868
[Report No. 118–82]
To require an interagency study to produce a security assessment process
on adjacent space to high-security leased space to accommodate a Federal
agency, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE7, 2023
Mr. P
ETERS(for himself and Mr. SCOTTof Florida) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs
J
ULY27, 2023
Reported by Mr. P
ETERS, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To require an interagency study to produce a security assess-
ment process on adjacent space to high-security leased
space to accommodate a Federal agency, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 1
ThisActmaybecitedasthe‘‘SecureAdjacentFed-2
eralPropertyActof2023’’. 3
SEC.2.DEFINITIONS. 4
InthisAct: 5
(1)ADMINISTRATOR.—Theterm‘‘Adminis-6
trator’’meanstheAdministratorofGeneralServ-7
ices. 8
(2)BENEFICIALOWNER.— 9
(A)INGENERAL.—Theterm‘‘beneficial 10
owner’’,withrespecttoacoveredentity,means 11
eachnaturalpersonwho,directlyorindirectly, 12
throughanycontract,arrangement,under-13
standing,relationship,orotherwise— 14
(i)exercisescontroloverthecovered 15
entity;or 16
(ii)hasasubstantialinterestinorre-17
ceivessubstantialeconomicbenefitsfrom 18
theassetsofthecoveredentity. 19
(B)EXCLUSIONS.—Theterm‘‘beneficial 20
owner’’,withrespecttoacoveredentity,does 21
notinclude— 22
(i)aminor; 23
(ii)apersonactingasanominee, 24
intermediary,custodian,oragentonbehalf 25
ofanotherperson; 26
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(iii)apersonactingsolelyasanem-1
ployeeofthecoveredentityandwhosecon-2
troloveroreconomicbenefitsfromthe 3
coveredentityderivessolelyfromtheem-4
ploymentstatusoftheperson; 5
(iv)apersonwhoseonlyinterestin 6
thecoveredentityisthrougharightofin-7
heritance,unlessthepersonalsomeetsthe 8
requirementsofsubparagraph(A);or 9
(v)acreditorofthecoveredentity, 10
unlessthecreditoralsomeetstherequire-11
mentsofsubparagraph(A). 12
(C)ANTI-ABUSERULE.—Theexclusions 13
undersubparagraph(B)shallnotapplyif,in 14
thedeterminationoftheAdministrator,anex-15
clusionisusedforthepurposeofevading,cir-16
cumventing,orabusingtherequirementsofthis 17
Act. 18
(3)CONTROL.—Theterm‘‘control’’,withre-19
specttoacoveredentity,means— 20
(A)havingtheauthorityorabilitytode-21
terminehowthecoveredentityisused;or 22
(B)havingsomedecision-makingpowerfor 23
theuseofthecoveredentity. 24
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(4)COVEREDENTITY.—Theterm‘‘covereden-1
tity’’means— 2
(A)aperson,corporation,company,busi-3
nessassociation,partnership,society,trust,or 4
anyothernongovernmentalentity,organization, 5
orgroup;and 6
(B)anygovernmentalentityorinstrumen-7
talityofagovernment. 8
(5)EXECUTIVEAGENCY.—Theterm‘‘Executive 9
agency’’hasthemeaninggiventheterminsection 10
105oftitle5,UnitedStatesCode. 11
(6)FEDERAL AGENCY.—Theterm‘‘Federal 12
agency’’means— 13
(A)anExecutiveagency;and 14
(B)anyestablishmentinthelegislativeor 15
judicialbranchoftheFederalGovernment. 16
(7)FEDERALLESSEE.— 17
(A)INGENERAL.—Theterm‘‘Federalles-18
see’’means— 19
(i)theAdministrator; 20
(ii)theArchitectoftheCapitol;and 21
(iii)theheadofanyotherFederal 22
agencythathasindependentstatutory 23
leasingauthority. 24
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(B)EXCLUSIONS.—Theterm‘‘Federalles-1
see’’doesnotinclude— 2
(i)theheadofanelementoftheintel-3
ligencecommunity;or 4
(ii)theSecretaryofDefense. 5
(8)FEDERALTENANT.— 6
(A)INGENERAL.—Theterm‘‘Federalten-7
ant’’meansaFederalagencythatisoccupying 8
orwilloccupyahigh-securityleasedspacefor 9
whichaleaseagreementhasbeensecuredon 10
behalfoftheFederalagency. 11
(B)EXCLUSION.—Theterm‘‘Federalten-12
ant’’doesnotincludeanelementoftheintel-13
ligencecommunity. 14
(9)FOREIGNENTITY.—Theterm‘‘foreignenti-15
ty’’meansacoveredentitythatisheadquarteredor 16
incorporatedinacountrythatisnottheUnited 17
States. 18
(10)FOREIGNPERSON.—Theterm‘‘foreign 19
person’’meansanindividualwhoisnotaUnited 20
Statesperson. 21
(11)HIGH-SECURITY LEASED ADJACENT 22
SPACE.—Theterm‘‘high-securityleasedadjacent 23
space’’meansabuildingorofficespacethatshares 24
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aboundarywithorsurroundsahigh-securityleased 1
space. 2
(12)HIGH-SECURITY LEASED SPACE.—The 3
term‘‘high-securityleasedspace’’meansaspace 4
leasedbyaFederallesseethat— 5
(A)willbeoccupiedbyFederalemployees 6
fornonmilitaryactivities;and 7
(B)hasafacilitysecuritylevelofIII,IV, 8
orV,asdeterminedbytheFederaltenantin 9
consultationwiththeInteragencySecurity 10
Committee,theSecretaryofHomelandSecu-11
rity,andtheAdministrator. 12
(13)HIGHEST-LEVEL OWNER.—Theterm 13
‘‘highest-levelowner’’meansanentitythatownsor 14
controls— 15
(A)animmediateowneroftheofferorof 16
aleaseforahigh-securityleasedadjacent 17
space;or 18
(B)1ormoreentitiesthatcontrolanim-19
mediateowneroftheofferorofaleasede-20
scribedinsubparagraph(A). 21
(14)IMMEDIATE OWNER.—Theterm‘‘imme-22
diateowner’’meansanentity,otherthantheofferor 23
ofaleaseforahigh-securityleasedadjacentspace, 24
thathasdirectcontrolofthatofferor,including— 25
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(A)ownershiporinterlockingmanagement; 1
(B)identityofinterestsamongfamily 2
members; 3
(C)sharedfacilitiesandequipment;and 4
(D)thecommonuseofemployees. 5
(15)INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—Theterm 6
‘‘intelligencecommunity’’hasthemeaninggiventhe 7
terminsection3oftheNationalSecurityActof 8
1947(50U.S.C.3003). 9
(16)SUBSTANTIALECONOMICBENEFITS.—The 10
term‘‘substantialeconomicbenefits’’,withrespect 11
toanaturalpersondescribedinparagraph 12
(2)(A)(ii),meanshavinganentitlementtothefunds 13
orassetsofacoveredentitythat,asapracticalmat-14
ter,enablestheperson,directlyorindirectly,tocon-15
trol,manage,ordirectthecoveredentity. 16
(17)UNITEDSTATES PERSON.—Theterm 17
‘‘UnitedStatesperson’’meansanindividualwho— 18
(A)isacitizenoftheUnitedStates;or 19
(B)isanalienlawfullyadmittedforper-20
manentresidenceintheUnitedStates. 21
SEC.3.GOVERNMENTWIDE STUDY. 22
(a)COORDINATIONSTUDY.—TheAdministrator,in 23
coordinationwiththeDirectoroftheFederalProtective 24
Service,theSecretaryofHomelandSecurity,theDirector 25
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oftheOfficeofManagementandBudget,andanyother 1
relevantentities,asdeterminedbytheAdministrator, 2
shallcarryoutagovernmentwidestudyexaminingoptions 3
toassistagencies(asdefinedisdefinedinsection551of 4
title5,UnitedStatesCode)toproduceasecurityassess-5
mentprocessonhigh-securityleasedadjacentspacebefore 6
enteringintoaleaseornovationagreementwithacovered 7
entityforthepurposesofaccommodatingaFederalten-8
antlocatedinahigh-securityleasedspace. 9
(b)CONTENTS.—Thestudyrequiredundersub-10
section(a)— 11
(1)shallevaluatehowtoproduceasecurityas-12
sessmentprocessthatincludesaprocessforassess-13
ingthethreatlevelofeachoccupancyofahigh-se-14
curityleasedspace,includingthrough— 15
(A)site-visits; 16
(B)interviews;and 17
(C)anyotherrelevantactivitiesdeter-18
minednecessarybytheDirectoroftheFederal 19
ProtectiveService;and 20
(2)mayincludeaprocessforcollectingand 21
usinginformationoneachimmediateowner,highest- 22
levelowner,orbeneficialownerofacoveredentity 23
thatseekstoenterintoaleasewithaFederallessee 24
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forahigh-securityleasedadjacentspace,includ-1
ing— 2
(A)name; 3
(B)currentresidentialorbusinessstreet 4
address;and 5
(C)anidentifyingnumberordocument 6
thatverifiesidentityasaUnitedStatesperson, 7
aforeignperson,orforeignentity. 8
(c)WORKINGGROUP.— 9
(1)INGENERAL.—Notlaterthan90daysafter 10
thedateofenactmentofthisAct,theAdministrator, 11
incoordinationwiththeDirectorofFederalProtec-12
tiveService,theSecretaryofHomelandSecurity, 13
theDirectoroftheOfficeofManagementandBudg-14
et,andanyotherrelevantentities,asdeterminedby 15
theAdministrator,shallestablishaworkinggroup 16
toassistinthecarryingoutofthestudyrequired 17
undersubsection(a). 18
(2)NOCOMPENSATION.—Amemberofthe 19
workinggroupestablishedunderparagraph(1)shall 20
receivenocompensationasaresultofservingonthe 21
workinggroup. 22
(3)SUNSET.—Theworkinggroupestablished 23
underparagraph(1)shallterminateonthedateon 24
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whichthereportrequiredundersubsection(e)is 1
submitted. 2
(d)PROTECTIONOFINFORMATION.—TheAdminis-3
tratorshallensurethatanyinformationcollectedpursu-4
anttothestudyrequiredundersubsection(a)shallnot 5
bemadeavailabletothepublic. 6
(e)REPORT.—Notlaterthan2yearsafterthedate 7
ofenactmentofthisAct,theAdministrator,incoordina-8
tionwiththeDirectorofFederalProtectiveService,the 9
SecretaryofHomelandSecurity,theDirectoroftheOffice 10
ofManagementandBudget,andanyotherrelevantenti-11
ties,asdeterminedbytheAdministrator,shallsubmitto 12
theCommitteeonHomelandSecurityandGovernmental 13
AffairsoftheSenateandtheCommitteeonTranspor-14
tationandInfrastructureoftheHouseofRepresentatives 15
areportdescribing— 16
(1)theresultsofthestudyrequiredundersub-17
section(a);and 18
(2)howallapplicableprivacylawsandrights 19
relatingtotheFirstandFourthAmendmentstothe 20
ConstitutionoftheUnitedStateswouldbeupheld 21
andfollowedin— 22
(A)thesecurityassessmentprocessde-23
scribedinparagraph(1)ofsubsection(b);and 24
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(B)theinformationcollectionprocessde-1
scribedinparagraph(2)ofthatsubsection. 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secure Adjacent Federal 4
Property Act of 2023’’. 5
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
In this Act: 7
(1) A
DMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-8
trator’’ means the Administrator of General Services. 9
(2) B
ENEFICIAL OWNER.— 10
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘beneficial 11
owner’’, with respect to a covered entity, means 12
each natural person who, directly or indirectly, 13
through any contract, arrangement, under-14
standing, relationship, or otherwise— 15
(i) exercises substantial control over 16
the covered entity; or 17
(ii) owns or controls not less than 25 18
percent of the ownership interests of, or re-19
ceives substantial economic benefits from the 20
assets of, the covered entity. 21
(B) E
XCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘beneficial 22
owner’’, with respect to a covered entity, does not 23
include— 24
(i) a minor; 25
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(ii) a person acting as a nominee, 1
intermediary, custodian, or agent on behalf 2
of another person; 3
(iii) a person acting solely as an em-4
ployee of the covered entity and whose con-5
trol over or economic benefits from the cov-6
ered entity derives solely from the employ-7
ment status of the person; 8
(iv) a person whose only interest in the 9
covered entity is through a right of inherit-10
ance, unless the person also meets the re-11
quirements of subparagraph (A); or 12
(v) a creditor of the covered entity, un-13
less the creditor also meets the requirements 14
of subparagraph (A). 15
(C) A
NTI-ABUSE RULE.—The exclusions 16
under subparagraph (B) shall not apply if, in 17
the determination of the Administrator, an ex-18
clusion is used for the purpose of evading, cir-19
cumventing, or abusing the requirements of this 20
Act. 21
(3) C
ONTROL.—The term ‘‘control’’, with respect 22
to a covered entity, means— 23
(A) having the authority or ability to deter-24
mine how the covered entity is utilized; or 25
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(B) having some decisionmaking power for 1
the use of the covered entity. 2
(4) C
OVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered enti-3
ty’’ means— 4
(A) a person, corporation, company, busi-5
ness association, partnership, society, trust, or 6
any other nongovernmental entity, organization, 7
or group; or 8
(B) any governmental entity or instrumen-9
tality of a government. 10
(5) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Executive 11
agency’’ has the meaning given the term in section 12
105 of title 5, United States Code. 13
(6) F
EDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal agen-14
cy’’ means— 15
(A) an Executive agency; and 16
(B) any establishment in the legislative or 17
judicial branch of the Federal Government. 18
(7) F
EDERAL LESSEE.— 19
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Federal les-20
see’’ means— 21
(i) the Administrator; 22
(ii) the Architect of the Capitol; and 23
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(iii) the head of any other Federal 1
agency that has independent statutory leas-2
ing authority. 3
(B) E
XCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘Federal les-4
see’’ does not include— 5
(i) the head of an element of the intel-6
ligence community; or 7
(ii) the Secretary of Defense. 8
(8) F
EDERAL TENANT.— 9
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Federal ten-10
ant’’ means a Federal agency that is occupying 11
or will occupy a high-security leased space for 12
which a lease agreement has been secured on be-13
half of the Federal agency. 14
(B) E
XCLUSION.—The term ‘‘Federal ten-15
ant’’ does not include an element of the intel-16
ligence community. 17
(9) F
OREIGN ENTITY.—The term ‘‘foreign entity’’ 18
means— 19
(A) a corporation, company, business asso-20
ciation, partnership, society, trust, or any other 21
nongovernmental entity, organization, or group 22
that is headquartered in or organized under the 23
laws of— 24
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(i) a country that is not the United 1
States; or 2
(ii) a State, unit of local government, 3
or Indian Tribe that is not located within 4
or a territory of the United States; or 5
(B) a government or governmental instru-6
mentality that is not— 7
(i) the United States Government; or 8
(ii) a State, unit of local government, 9
or Indian Tribe that is located within or a 10
territory of the United States. 11
(10) F
OREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-12
son’’ means an individual who is not a United States 13
person. 14
(11) H
IGH-SECURITY LEASED ADJACENT 15
SPACE.—The term ‘‘high-security leased adjacent 16
space’’ means a building or office space that shares a 17
boundary with or surrounds a high-security leased 18
space. 19
(12) H
IGH-SECURITY LEASED SPACE.—The term 20
‘‘high-security leased space’’ means a space leased by 21
a Federal lessee that— 22
(A) will be occupied by Federal employees 23
for nonmilitary activities; and 24
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(B) has a facility security level of III, IV, 1
or V, as determined by the Federal tenant in 2
consultation with the Interagency Security Com-3
mittee, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and 4
the Administrator. 5
(13) H
IGHEST-LEVEL OWNER.—The term ‘‘high-6
est-level owner’’ means an entity that owns or con-7
trols— 8
(A) an immediate owner of the offeror of a 9
lease for a high-security leased adjacent space; or 10
(B) 1 or more entities that control an im-11
mediate owner of the offeror of a lease described 12
in subparagraph (A). 13
(14) I
MMEDIATE OWNER.—The term ‘‘immediate 14
owner’’ means an entity, other than the offeror of a 15
lease for a high-security leased adjacent space, that 16
has direct control of that offeror, including— 17
(A) ownership or interlocking management; 18
(B) identity of interests among family 19
members; 20
(C) shared facilities and equipment; and 21
(D) the common use of employees. 22
(15) I
NTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY .—The term ‘‘in-23
telligence community’’ has the meaning given the 24
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term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 1
(50 U.S.C. 3003). 2
(16) S
UBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC BENEFITS .—The 3
term ‘‘substantial economic benefits’’, with respect to 4
a natural person described in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), 5
means having an entitlement to the funds or assets of 6
a covered entity that, as a practical matter, enables 7
the person, directly or indirectly, to control, manage, 8
or direct the covered entity. 9
(17) U
NITED STATES PERSON .—The term 10
‘‘United States person’’ means an individual who— 11
(A) is a citizen of the United States; or 12
(B) is an alien lawfully admitted for per-13
manent residence in the United States. 14
SEC. 3. GOVERNMENT-WIDE STUDY. 15
(a) C
OORDINATIONSTUDY.—The Administrator, in co-16
ordination with the Director of the Federal Protective Serv-17
ice, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the 18
Office of Management and Budget, and any other relevant 19
entities, as determined by the Administrator, shall carry 20
out a Government-wide study examining options to assist 21
agencies (as defined in section 551 of title 5, United States 22
Code) to produce a security assessment process for high-se-23
curity leased adjacent space before entering into a lease or 24
novation agreement with a covered entity for the purposes 25
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of accommodating a Federal tenant located in a high-secu-1
rity leased space. 2
(b) C
ONTENTS.—The study required under subsection 3
(a)— 4
(1) shall evaluate how to produce a security as-5
sessment process that includes a process for assessing 6
the threat level of each occupancy of a high-security 7
leased adjacent space, including through— 8
(A) site-visits; 9
(B) interviews; and 10
(C) any other relevant activities determined 11
necessary by the Director of the Federal Protec-12
tive Service; and 13
(2) may include a process for collecting and 14
using information on each immediate owner, highest- 15
level owner, or beneficial owner of a covered entity 16
that seeks to enter into a lease with a Federal lessee 17
for a high-security leased adjacent space, including— 18
(A) name; 19
(B) current residential or business street ad-20
dress; and 21
(C) an identifying number or document 22
that verifies identity as a United States person, 23
a foreign person, or a foreign entity. 24
(c) W
ORKINGGROUP.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 1
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, 2
in coordination with the Director of Federal Protec-3
tive Service, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the 4
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 5
and any other relevant entities, as determined by the 6
Administrator, shall establish a working group to as-7
sist in the carrying out of the study required under 8
subsection (a). 9
(2) N
O COMPENSATION.—A member of the work-10
ing group established under paragraph (1) shall re-11
ceive no compensation as a result of serving on the 12
working group. 13
(3) S
UNSET.—The working group established 14
under paragraph (1) shall terminate on the date on 15
which the report required under subsection (f) is sub-16
mitted. 17
(d) P
ROTECTION OF INFORMATION.—The Adminis-18
trator shall ensure that any information collected pursuant 19
to the study required under subsection (a) shall not be made 20
available to the public. 21
(e) L
IMITATION.—Nothing in this section requires an 22
entity located in the United States to provide information 23
requested pursuant to the study required under subsection 24
(a). 25
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(f) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date of 1
enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in coordination 2
with the Director of Federal Protective Service, the Sec-3
retary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of 4
Management and Budget, and any other relevant entities, 5
as determined by the Administrator, shall submit to the 6
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-7
fairs of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation 8
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report 9
describing— 10
(1) the results of the study required under sub-11
section (a); and 12
(2) how all applicable privacy laws and rights 13
relating to the First and Fourth Amendments to the 14
Constitution of the United States would be upheld 15
and followed in— 16
(A) the security assessment process described 17
in paragraph (1) of subsection (b); and 18
(B) the information collection process de-19
scribed in paragraph (2) of that subsection. 20
(g) L
IMITATION.—Nothing in this section authorizes a 21
Federal entity to mandate information gathering unless 22
specifically authorized by law. 23
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(h) PROHIBITION.—No information collected pursuant 1
the security assessment process described in subsection 2
(b)(1) may be used for law enforcement purposes. 3
(i) N
OADDITIONALFUNDING.—No additional funds 4
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section. 5
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118
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
S. 1868
[Report No. 118–82]
A BILL
To require an interagency study to produce a secu-
rity assessment process on adjacent space to
high-security leased space to accommodate a
Federal agency, and for other purposes.
J
ULY
27, 2023
Reported with an amendment
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kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS