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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5513 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to ensure that the process 
for an individual obtaining a security clearance includes vetting the 
individual for ties to domestic terrorism, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2021 
Mr. CROW (for himself, Ms. CHENEY, and Mrs. MURPHY of Florida) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, and in addition to the Committee on Over-
sight and Reform, 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 amend the National Security Act of 1947 to ensure 
that the process for an individual obtaining a security 
clearance includes vetting the individual for ties to do-
mestic terrorism, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Clearance for Ter-
rorists Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO INVESTIGATIONS AND ADJU-
DICATIONS OF SECURITY CLEARANCES. 
(a) INCLUSION OF CERTAIN MATTERS IN ADJUDICA-
TIVE GUIDELINES.—Section 803 of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3162a) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) ADJUDICATIVE GUIDELINES.— 
‘‘(1) CONDITIONS
THAT
COULD
RAISE
SECU-
RITY CONCERN.—The Security Executive Agent shall 
ensure that the adjudicative guidelines, in deter-
mining what conditions could raise a security con-
cern and may disqualify an individual from being eli-
gible to access classified information, include wheth-
er an individual has been involved in, supported, 
trained to commit, or advocated domestic or inter-
national terrorism. 
‘‘(2) ADJUDICATIVE GUIDELINES.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘adjudicative guidelines’ means the 
adjudicative guidelines under Security Executive 
Agent Directive 4 (known as the ‘National Security 
Adjudicative Guidelines’), or such successor guide-
lines, issued pursuant to section 801, this section, 
and section 3002(d) of the Intelligence Reform and 
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 
3343(d)).’’. 
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(b) INVESTIGATIONS, POLYGRAPHS, AND ADJUDICA-
TIONS.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and 
(4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing new paragraph (2): 
‘‘(2) ensure that such guidelines and instruc-
tions for investigations, polygraphs, and adjudica-
tions include screening an individual for possible in-
volvement with domestic terrorism;’’. 
(c) STANDARD FORMS 85P AND 86.—The Director 
of National Intelligence, acting as the Security Executive 
Agent under section 803 of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3162a), and the Director of the Office 
of Personnel Management, acting as the Suitability and 
Credentialing Executive Agent in accordance with Execu-
tive Order 13467 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note), shall ensure that 
the Questionnaire for Public Trust Positions (Standard 
Form 85P) and the Questionnaire for National Security 
Positions (Standard Form 86), or such successor forms, 
elicit information regarding whether the individual submit-
ting the form has been involved in domestic terrorism. 
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