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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION 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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY26, 2025
Mr. B
EYER(for himself, Mr. LIEU, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms.
N
ORTON, Mr. GOLDMANof New York, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms.
S
A´NCHEZ, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. CORREA, Mr. CARSON, Ms.
J
AYAPAL, Mr. SUBRAMANYAM, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr.
T
ONKO, Ms. SCHOLTEN, and Mr. PETERS) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
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 deter-
minations and access determinations for political ap-
pointees and special Government employees in the Execu-
tive Office of the President, 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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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Security Clearance Re-2
view Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. SECURITY CLEARANCE DETERMINATIONS AND AC-4
CESS DETERMINATIONS BY DIRECTOR OF FBI 5
FOR POLITICAL APPOINTEES AND SPECIAL 6
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN EXECUTIVE 7
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. 8
Section 3001 of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-9
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3341) is 10
amended by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(k) P
OLITICALAPPOINTEES ANDSPECIALGOVERN-12
MENTEMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVEOFFICE OF THE 13
P
RESIDENT.— 14
‘‘(1) A
PPOINTMENT AND ACCESS TO CLASSI -15
FIED INFORMATION .—Notwithstanding any other 16
provision of law— 17
‘‘(A) a political appointee or special Gov-18
ernment employee may not be employed in, de-19
tailed to, or assigned to, the Executive Office of 20
the President unless such employment, detail, 21
or assignment is clearly consistent with national 22
security; and 23
‘‘(B) any political appointee or special Gov-24
ernment employee employed in, detailed to, or 25
assigned to, the Executive Office of the Presi-26
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dent may not have a security clearance, or ac-1
cess any classified information, unless such se-2
curity clearance is granted, or access deter-3
mination is made, by the Director of the Fed-4
eral Bureau of Investigation. 5
‘‘(2) D
ETERMINATION AND NOTIFICATION .— 6
‘‘(A) D
IRECTOR.—If the Director of the 7
Federal Bureau of Investigation denies, sus-8
pends, or revokes a security clearance or access 9
to classified information under paragraph (1), 10
the Director shall notify the President and the 11
appropriate committees of Congress of such de-12
termination on the date such determination is 13
made. 14
‘‘(B) P
RESIDENT.—If the President nul-15
lifies, reverses, modifies, or otherwise fails to 16
recognize any denial, suspension, or revocation 17
of a security clearance or access to classified in-18
formation determination made by the Director 19
under paragraph (1), not later than 30 days 20
thereafter, the President shall submit an expla-21
nation (in writing) of the reasons for such nul-22
lification, reversal, modification, or failure to 23
recognize to the appropriate committees of Con-24
gress. 25
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‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 1
‘‘(A) P
OLITICAL APPOINTEE.—The term 2
‘political appointee’ has the meaning given that 3
term in section 4(a)(4) of the Edward ‘Ted’ 4
Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential 5
Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 (Public 6
Law 114–136; 5 U.S.C. 3101 note). 7
‘‘(B) S
PECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE .— 8
The term ‘special Government employee’ has 9
the meaning given that term in section 202 of 10
title 18, United States Code.’’. 11
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