No Clearance for Terrorists Act
Bill: H.R.5513 | Sponsor: Rep. Crow, Jason (D-CO)
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
No Clearance for Terrorists Act
This bill requires processes for vetting an individual for a security clearance to take into consideration whether that individual has been involved in terrorism.
The Special Security Directorate of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center must ensure that the guidelines for adjudicating security clearances, when determining what conditions could raise a security concern or disqualify an applicant, include whether the applicant has been involved in or advocated domestic or international terrorism.
The directorate must also ensure that guidelines and instructions to federal agencies relating to security clearances include screening an individual for possible involvement with domestic terrorism.
The directorate and the Office of Personnel Management must ensure that certain forms related to public trust and national security positions include questions regarding whether the individual submitting the form has been involved in domestic terrorism.

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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Clearance for Terrorists Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO INVESTIGATIONS AND ADJUDICATIONS OF SECURITY 
              CLEARANCES.

    (a) Inclusion of Certain Matters in Adjudicative 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 security concern.--The 
        Security Executive Agent shall ensure that the adjudicative 
        guidelines, in determining what conditions could raise a 
        security concern and may disqualify an individual from being 
        eligible to access classified information, include whether an 
        individual has been involved in, supported, trained to commit, 
        or advocated domestic or international terrorism.
            ``(2) Adjudicative guidelines.--In this subsection, the 
        term `adjudicative guidelines' means the adjudicative 
        guidelines under Security Executive Agent Directive 4 (known as 
        the `National Security Adjudicative Guidelines'), or such 
        successor guidelines, 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)).''.
    (b) Investigations, Polygraphs, and Adjudications.--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 following new 
        paragraph (2):
            ``(2) ensure that such guidelines and instructions for 
        investigations, polygraphs, and adjudications include screening 
        an individual for possible involvement 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 
Executive 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 submitting the form has been involved in domestic terrorism.
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