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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. 
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. 
SA´NCHEZ, 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 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-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Security Clearance Re-
view Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SECURITY CLEARANCE DETERMINATIONS AND AC-
CESS 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 Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3341) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(k) POLITICAL APPOINTEES AND SPECIAL GOVERN-
MENT EMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE 
PRESIDENT.— 
‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT
AND
ACCESS
TO
CLASSI-
FIED
INFORMATION.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law— 
‘‘(A) a political appointee or special Gov-
ernment employee may not be employed in, de-
tailed 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 Gov-
ernment employee employed in, detailed to, or 
assigned to, the Executive Office of the Presi-
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dent may not have a security clearance, or ac-
cess any classified information, unless such se-
curity clearance is granted, or access deter-
mination is made, by the Director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION AND NOTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) DIRECTOR.—If the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation denies, sus-
pends, 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 de-
termination on the date such determination is 
made. 
‘‘(B) PRESIDENT.—If the President nul-
lifies, reverses, modifies, or otherwise fails to 
recognize any denial, suspension, or revocation 
of a security clearance or access to classified in-
formation determination made by the Director 
under paragraph (1), not later than 30 days 
thereafter, the President shall submit an expla-
nation (in writing) of the reasons for such nul-
lification, reversal, modification, or failure to 
recognize to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress. 
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‘‘(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.’’. 
Æ 
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