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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3418 
To enhance homeland security, including domestic preparedness and the col-
lective response to terrorism, by improving the Federal Protective Service, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2015 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition 
to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To enhance homeland security, including domestic prepared-
ness and the collective response to terrorism, by improv-
ing the Federal Protective Service, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Federal Protective 
Service Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE INSPECTORS AND 
CONTRACT OVERSIGHT FORCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1315 of title 40, United 
States Code, is amended by— 
(1) redesignating subsections (c) through (g) as 
subsections (h) through (l), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing new subsections: 
‘‘(c) INSPECTORS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Federal Protective Serv-
ice, shall maintain not fewer than 1,870 full-time 
equivalent positions in the Federal Protective Serv-
ice, with not fewer than 1,350 of such positions des-
ignated for fully trained Federal law enforcement of-
ficers. 
‘‘(2) CLASSIFICATION.—Positions in the Fed-
eral Protective Service inspector force may be des-
ignated as one of two functional categories: 
‘‘(A) FACILITY SECURITY ASSESSMENT.— 
Federal Facility Security Officers, who shall be 
responsible for— 
‘‘(i) performing facility security as-
sessments at facilities protected by the 
Federal Protective Service, including con-
tract guard post inspections; 
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‘‘(ii) making security countermeasure 
recommendations for such facilities; 
‘‘(iii) participating in security training 
and disseminating homeland security infor-
mation, consistent with applicable protocols 
and protections, to occupants and security 
guards, including contract guards, of such 
facilities; and 
‘‘(iv) assessing, on an ongoing basis, 
the security of such facilities and the ex-
tent to which security countermeasure rec-
ommendations have been implemented for 
such facilities. 
‘‘(B) SECURITY
ENFORCEMENT
AND
IN-
VESTIGATIONS.—Law enforcement officers, who 
shall be responsible for— 
‘‘(i) patrolling and on-site monitoring 
of the physical security, including perim-
eter security, of facilities protected by the 
Federal Protective Service; 
‘‘(ii) investigations at such facilities; 
and 
‘‘(iii) physical law enforcement at 
such facilities in the event of a terrorist at-
tack, security incident, or other incident. 
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‘‘(d) CONTRACT OVERSIGHT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Federal Protective Serv-
ice, shall establish the Federal Protective Service 
contract oversight force, which shall consist of full- 
time equivalent positions and who shall be respon-
sible for, in coordination with the Federal Protective 
Service inspector force— 
‘‘(A) monitoring contracts, contractors, 
and contract guards provided by contractors; 
‘‘(B) carrying out annual evaluations of 
performance by contractors that provide con-
tract guard services to the Federal Protective 
Service; and 
‘‘(C) verifying that contract guards have 
necessary training and certification. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION ON PERFORMANCE OF FUNC-
TIONS.—The contract oversight functions described 
in paragraph (1) may not be performed by law en-
forcement officers or other individuals employed pur-
suant to subsection (c). 
‘‘(e) UNIFORM MINIMUM STANDARDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Fed-
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eral Protective Service, shall establish uniform min-
imum training and certification standards for secu-
rity guard services at facilities protected by the Fed-
eral Protective Service. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—Upon establishment of min-
imum training and certification standards pursuant 
to paragraph (1), the Secretary, acting through the 
Director of the Federal Protective Service, shall re-
quire that all contracts for security guard services 
comply with such standards. 
‘‘(f) VERIFICATION.—Not later than 180 days after 
the establishment of minimum training and certification 
standards for security services pursuant to subsection (e), 
the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Federal 
Protective Service, shall establish a process to verify the 
accuracy of training and certification data maintained by 
the Federal Protective Service. 
‘‘(g) COVERT TESTING.—The Secretary shall develop 
and implement a strategy for using covert-testing data 
and data on prohibited items to improve screening at fa-
cilities protected by the Federal Protective Service. Such 
strategy should, at a minimum, require that— 
‘‘(1) covert-testing data is used to monitor, re-
view, and improve performance nationwide; 
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‘‘(2) covert-testing data is used to determine 
which testing scenarios will be implemented or rein-
stated; and 
‘‘(3) data on prohibited items are analyzed to 
determine the reasons for wide variations in the 
number of reported prohibited-items detected across 
such facilities and to assist with managing the 
screening process and informing policy.’’. 
(b) SCREENER AND ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING.— 
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Federal Protective Service 
shall, on an ongoing basis, determine which individuals in 
guard positions have not successfully completed— 
(1) training on the effective utilization of 
screening equipment, such as x-ray and magne-
tometer equipment, and 
(2) active shooter scenario-based training, and 
provide such training to such individuals. 
SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERAGENCY SECURITY COM-
MITTEE MINIMUM SECURITY STANDARDS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On October 19, 1995, six months after the 
Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah 
Federal Building, President Clinton issued Executive 
Order 12977, creating the Interagency Security 
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Committee to address continuing Government-wide 
security for Federal facilities. The Committee’s man-
date is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of 
physical security in, and the protection of, non-mili-
tary Federal facilities in the United States, whether 
Government-owned, -leased, or -managed. Today, the 
Committee is comprised of chief security officers and 
other senior executives from 54 Federal agencies 
and departments. 
(2) On September 7, 2012, the primary mem-
bers of the Interagency Security Committee ap-
proved ‘‘The Risk Management Process: An Inter-
agency Security Committee Standard’’, which was 
issued in August 2013. 
(3) Consistent with Executive Order 12977, 
‘‘The Risk Management Process: An Interagency Se-
curity Committee Standard’’ is intended to be ap-
plied to all facilities in the United States occupied 
by Federal employees for non-military activities. 
This standard defines the criteria and processes that 
those individuals responsible for the security of such 
a facility should use to determine such a facility’s 
security level, and provides an integrated, single 
source of physical security countermeasures for all 
such non-military Federal facilities. 
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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Interagency Security Committee standards 
for Federal facilities established by the Interagency Secu-
rity Committee in the document entitled ‘‘The Risk Man-
agement Process: An Interagency Security Committee 
Standard’’ published in August 2013 and successor docu-
ments should be utilized, as appropriate, to protect all 
non-military Federal facilities. 
(c) ASSESSMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate an assessment of the degree to which the standards 
specified in the ‘‘The Risk Management Process: An Inter-
agency Security Committee Standard’’, approved by the 
Interagency Security Committee, is utilized by all non- 
military Federal facilities and what, if any, barriers exist 
to utilization of such standards. 
SEC. 4. RESEARCH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than six months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, acting through the Director of the 
Federal Protective Service, shall commence a one-year 
pilot program to research the advantages of converting 
guard positions at the highest-risk Federal facilities pro-
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tected by the Federal Protective Service from contract 
guard positions to positions held by Federal employees. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—At a minimum, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall conduct the pilot program de-
scribed in subsection (a) at one level III facility and one 
level IV facility in each of Federal Protective Service re-
gions I, III, V, and VII, by hiring individuals to fill guard 
positions at each facility that participates in such pilot 
program in accordance with subsection (c). 
(c) FEDERAL FACILITY SECURITY GUARD POSI-
TION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this section, 
and subject to the availability of appropriations for 
such purpose, the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
acting through the Director of the Federal Protec-
tive Service, shall establish and hire individuals for 
a Federal facility security guard position. 
(2) TRAINING.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security, acting through the Director of the Federal 
Protective Service, shall provide to individuals hired 
pursuant to paragraph (1) training in— 
(A) performing the physical security for a 
Federal facility, including access point controls 
and security countermeasure operations; 
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(B) participating in information sharing 
and dissemination of homeland security infor-
mation, consistent with applicable protocols and 
protections; and 
(C) responding to specific security inci-
dents, including preparing for and responding 
to an act of terrorism, that can occur at a Fed-
eral facility, including response with force if 
necessary. 
(3) LIMITATION.—Individuals hired pursuant to 
paragraph (1) may not be Federal law enforcement 
officers. 
(d) TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security may assign, on a temporary basis, ex-
isting personnel employed by the Federal Protective Serv-
ice, on a temporary basis, to facilities that participate in 
the pilot program described in subsection (a) to perform 
security guard services under subsection (c) in furtherance 
of the such program, if the Secretary determines that indi-
viduals cannot be hired and trained pursuant to such sub-
section in a timely manner. 
(e) MAINTENANCE
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PER-
SONNEL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
section, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting 
through the Director of the Federal Protective Service, 
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shall maintain at each level III and level IV Federal facil-
ity protected by the Federal Protective Service such num-
ber of Federal law enforcement officers as is necessary to 
provide arrest authority and law enforcement support at 
each such facility, including support for Federal facility 
security guards hired pursuant to subsection (c) at each 
such facility, in the event of a terrorist attack, security 
incident, or other incident. 
(f) DEPARTMENTAL EVALUATION.—Not later than 
120 days after the completion of the pilot program de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
and the Comptroller General of the United States a report 
on such program that includes information on perform-
ance, including screener performance, of individuals par-
ticipating in such program, and presented in a format that 
is able to be compared to prior covert testing data col-
lected by the Comptroller General regarding contract 
guard performance. 
(g) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT.—Not later 
than 120 days after the receipt of the departmental eval-
uation under subsection (f), the Comptroller General of 
the United States shall submit to the Committee on 
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Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate a report that evaluates how the De-
partment of Homeland Security carried out such pilot pro-
gram, reviews the Secretary of Homeland Security’s eval-
uation of performance under such subsection, and, to the 
degree practicable, compares the Secretary’s evaluation 
with the results of previous Comptroller General reports 
evaluating the performance and oversight of the Federal 
Protective Service’s contract guard program. 
(h) IMPLEMENTATION.—Unless the Secretary of 
Homeland Security determines in the evaluation required 
under subsection (f) that overall performance was not ac-
ceptable of the individuals participating in the pilot pro-
gram described in subsection (a), the Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Federal Protective Service, 
shall, to the degree practicable, maintain Federal employ-
ees as Federal facility security guards at all level III and 
level IV Federal facilities protected by the Federal Protec-
tive Service. 
(i) FUNDING ASSESSMENT.—The Secretary of Home-
land Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate an assessment that shall include— 
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(1) an assessment of the extent to which the 
current fee-based system adequately funds the Fed-
eral Protective Service’s programs and activities; 
(2) an assessment of the appropriateness and 
adaptability of the structure of the fees charged to 
occupants of Federal facilities protected by the Fed-
eral Protective Service, and the degree to which such 
structure takes into account the actual costs in-
curred by the Federal Protective Service, particu-
larly with respect to those instances in which the 
Federal Protective Service provides heightened secu-
rity in response to information on current threats; 
(3) an assessment of the extent to which such 
fee-based system impedes the Federal Protective 
Service from executing its operations and imple-
menting oversight, inspections, and security en-
hancements; 
(4) recommendations, as appropriate, for alter-
ations to the current system and alternative funding 
approaches (including a mix of fees and appropria-
tions); and 
(5) options to mitigate challenges in budgeting, 
such as an alternative account structure to increase 
flexibility, while maintaining accountability and 
transparency. 
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(j) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 
2016, 2017, and 2018 such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out this section. 
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