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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 940 

To require each Member of Congress and the President and Vice President 

to complete a program of training in handling and safeguarding classified 

information, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 9, 2023 

Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mr. ZINKE, and Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 

A BILL 

To require each Member of Congress and the President 

and Vice President to complete a program of training 

in handling and safeguarding classified information, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Information Security 

5 Investment Act of 2023’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF CLASSIFIED INFOR2 MATION TRAINING FOR MEMBERS OF CON3 GRESS. 

4 (a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 30 days after the 

5 date of the enactment of this Act, the Committee on 

6 House Administration of the House of Representatives 

7 and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 

8 Senate shall issue regulations to require each Member of 

9 the House of Representatives and each Member of the 

10 Senate, respectively, to complete a program of training in 

11 handling and safeguarding classified information during 

12 each Congress. 

13 (b) DEADLINE.— 

14 (1) IN GENERAL.—Under the regulations issued 

15 by the Committee on House Administration of the 

16 House of Representatives and the Committee on 

17 Rules and Administration of the Senate under sub18 section (a), an individual shall complete the program 

19 of training required under such subsection and file 

20 a certificate of completion of such training— 

21 (A) in the case of an individual who is 

22 serving as a Member of the House of Rep23 resentatives or the Senate as of the date of the 

24 first day of the first session of a Congress, not 

25 later than 90 days after such date; or 


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1 (B) in the case of any other individual, not 

2 later than 90 days after the date the individual 

3 first becomes a Member of the House of Rep4 resentatives or the Senate during a Congress. 

5 (2) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST SESSION OF ONE

6 HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.—In the case of 

7 the first session of the One Hundred Eighteenth 

8 Congress, an individual described in subparagraph 

9 (A) of paragraph (1) shall complete the program of 

10 training required under subsection (a) not later than 

11 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

12 (c) MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

13 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Member of the 

14 House of Representatives’’ includes a Delegate or Resi15 dent Commissioner to the Congress. 

16 (d) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—The pro17 visions of this section are enacted by the Congress— 

18 (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 

19 the House of Representatives and the Senate, re20 spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 

21 part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of 

22 that House to which they specifically apply, and 

23 such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex24 tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 


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1 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 

2 right of either House to change such rules (so far 

3 as relating to such House) at any time, in the same 

4 manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 

5 any other rule of such House. 

6 SEC. 3. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF CLASSIFIED INFOR7 MATION TRAINING FOR PRESIDENT AND 

8 VICE PRESIDENT. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 

10 date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of11 fice of Personnel Management shall designate an appro12 priate agency or department of the Federal Government 

13 to develop and provide a program of training in handling 

14 and safeguarding classified information to the President 

15 and Vice President. 

16 (b) DEADLINE.— 

17 (1) IN GENERAL.—The President and Vice 

18 President shall each complete the program of train19 ing described in subsection (a) not later than 30 

20 days after the date each such individual begins serv21 ing a term as President or Vice President, and every 

22 two years thereafter while each such individual con23 tinues to serve as President or Vice President. 

24 (2) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST TRAINING.—The 

25 President and Vice President shall each, not later 


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1 than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 

2 this Act, complete the program of training described 

3 in subsection (a). 

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