Title: Streamlining DHS Overhead Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Streamlining DHS Overhead Act
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a Chief Facilities and Logistics Officer within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who shall: (1) develop policies and procedures and provide program oversight to manage DHS property, equipment, and material resources; and (2) manage and execute mission support services within the National Capital Region for DHS real property, facilities, headquarters, and field activities.
DHS shall develop: (1) an initial five-year regional real property strategy, which shall be geographically organized; (2) a subsequent five-year real property strategy; and (3) a department-wide policy implementing such strategies.
Such strategies shall, among other things:
The implementation policies shall require components: (1) to certify to DHS that such components have investigated all possibilities related to co-locating, consolidating, or partnering with other components before making any major real property acquisition or recommendation; and (2) acting through regional property managers, to report annually to DHS on underutilized space and identify space that may be made available for use by other components or federal or state agencies through reimbursable or other agreements.
Each component shall identify a senior career employee to serve as the property manager for each geographic region.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2190 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2190

    To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under 
Secretary for Management of the Department of Homeland Security to make 
    certain improvements in managing the Department's real property 
                   portfolio, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

Mr. Rutherford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under 
Secretary for Management of the Department of Homeland Security to make 
    certain improvements in managing the Department's real property 
                   portfolio, 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 ``Streamlining DHS Overhead Act''.

SEC. 2. LONG TERM REAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES.

    (a) In General.--Title VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 341 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sections:

``SEC. 710. CHIEF FACILITIES AND LOGISTICS OFFICER.

    ``(a) In General.--There is a Chief Facilities and Logistics 
Officer of the Department who shall report directly to the Under 
Secretary for Management. The Chief Facilities and Logistics Officer 
shall be career reserved for a member of the senior executive service.
    ``(b) Responsibilities.--The Chief Facilities and Logistics Officer 
shall--
            ``(1) develop policies and procedures and provide program 
        oversight to manage real property, facilities, personal 
        property, mobile assets, equipment, and other material 
        resources of the Department; and
            ``(2) manage and execute, in consultation with the 
        component heads, mission support services within the National 
        Capital Region for real property, facilities, and other common 
        headquarters and field activities for the Department.

``SEC. 711. LONG TERM REAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES.

    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) First strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this section, the Under Secretary for 
        Management shall develop an initial 5-year regional real 
        property strategy for the Department that covers the five 
        fiscal years immediately following such date of enactment. Such 
        strategy shall be geographically organized, as designated by 
        the Under Secretary for Management.
            ``(2) Second strategy.--Not later than the first day of the 
        fourth fiscal year covered by the first strategy under 
        paragraph (1), the Under Secretary for Management shall develop 
        a second 5-year real property strategy for the Department that 
        covers the five fiscal years immediately following the 
        conclusion of such first strategy.
    ``(b) Requirements.--The real property strategies developed in 
accordance with subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) identify opportunities to consolidate real property, 
        optimize the usage of Federal assets, and decrease the demand 
        for and number of commercial leases and square footage within 
        the Department's real property portfolio;
            ``(2) provide alternate housing and consolidation plans to 
        increase efficiency through joint use of Department spaces 
        while decreasing the reliance on and cost of leased space;
            ``(3) concentrate on geographical areas with a significant 
        Department presence, as identified by the Under Secretary for 
        Management;
            ``(4) examine the establishment of central Department 
        locations in each such geographical region and the co-location 
        of Department components based on the mission sets and 
        responsibilities of such components;
            ``(5) identify opportunities to reduce overhead costs 
        through co-location or consolidation of real property interests 
        or mission support activities, such as shared mail screening 
        and processing, centralized transportation and shuttle 
        services, regional transit benefit programs, common contracting 
        for custodial and other services, and leveraging strategic 
        sourcing contracts and sharing of specialized facilities, such 
        as training facilities and resources;
            ``(6) manage the current Department Workspace Standard for 
        Office Space in accordance with the Department office workspace 
        design process to develop the most efficient and effective 
        spaces within the workspace standard net usable square foot 
        ranges for all leased for office space entered into on or after 
        the date of the enactment of this section, including the 
        renewal of any leases for office space existing as of such 
        date;
            ``(7) define, based on square footage, what constitutes a 
        major real property acquisition;
            ``(8) prioritize actions to be taken to improve the 
        operations and management of the Department's real property 
        inventory, based on life-cycle cost estimations, in 
        consultation with component heads; and
            ``(9) include any additional information determined 
        appropriate or relevant by the Under Secretary for Management.
    ``(c) Implementation Policies.--Not later than 90 days after the 
development of each of the regional real property strategies developed 
in accordance with subsection (a), the Under Secretary for Management 
shall develop or update, as applicable, a Department-wide policy 
implementing such strategies.
    ``(d) Certifications.--Subject to subsection (g)(3), the 
implementation policies developed pursuant to subsection (c) shall 
require component heads to certify to the Under Secretary for 
Management that such heads have investigated all possibilities related 
to co-locating, consolidating, or partnering with other components 
before making any major real property acquisition or recommendation, as 
defined by the Under Secretary, including entering into any new leases, 
renewing any existing leases, or agreeing to extend or newly occupy any 
Federal space or new construction, in accordance with the applicable 
regional real property strategy developed in accordance with subsection 
(a).
    ``(e) Underutilized Space.--
            ``(1) In general.--The implementing policies developed 
        pursuant to subsection (c) shall require component heads, 
        acting through regional property managers under subsection (f), 
        to annually report to the Under Secretary for Management on 
        underutilized space and identify space that may be made 
        available for use, as applicable, by other components or 
        Federal or State agencies through reimbursable or other 
        agreements.
            ``(2) Exception.--The Under Secretary for Management may 
        grant an exception to the workspace standard net usable square 
        foot ranges described in subsection (b)(6) for specific office 
        locations at which a reduction or elimination of otherwise 
        underutilized space would negatively impact a component's 
        ability to execute its mission based on readiness performance 
        measures.
            ``(3) Underutilized space defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term `underutilized space' means any space with respect to 
        which utilization is greater than the workplace standard net 
        usable square foot ranges pursuant to subsection (b)(6).
    ``(f) Component Responsibilities.--
            ``(1) Regional property managers.--Each component head 
        shall identify a senior career employee of each such component 
        for each geographic region included in the regional real 
        property strategies developed in accordance with subsection (a) 
        to serve as each such component's regional property manager. 
        Each such regional property manager shall serve as a single 
        point of contact for Department headquarters and other 
        Department components for all real property matters relating to 
        each such component within the region in which each such 
        component is located, and (b) provide data and any other 
        support necessary for the DHS Regional Mission Support 
        Coordinator strategic asset and portfolio planning and 
        execution.
            ``(2) Data.--Regional property managers under paragraph (1) 
        shall provide quarterly to the Under Secretary for Management, 
        via a standardized and centralized system, data on each 
        component's real property holdings, as specified by the 
        Undersecretary for Management, including relating to 
        underutilized space under subsection (e) (as such term is 
        defined in such subsection), total square footage leased, 
        annual cost, and total number of staff, for each geographic 
        region included in the regional real property strategies 
        developed in accordance with subsection (a).
    ``(g) Ongoing Oversight.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Under Secretary for Management shall 
        monitor components' adherence to the regional real property 
        strategies developed in accordance with subsection (a) and the 
        implementation policies developed pursuant to subsection (c).
            ``(2) Annual review.--The Under Secretary for Management 
        shall annually review the data submitted pursuant to subsection 
        (f)(2) to ensure all underutilized space (as such term is 
        defined in subsection (e)) is properly identified.
            ``(3) Certification review.--The Under Secretary for 
        Management shall review, and if appropriate, approve, component 
        certifications under subsection (d) before such components may 
        make any major real property acquisition, including entering 
        into any new leases, renewing any existing leases, or agreeing 
        to extend or newly occupy any Federal space or new 
        construction, in accordance with the applicable regional real 
        property strategy developed in accordance with subsection (a).
            ``(4) Congressional reporting.--The Under Secretary for 
        Management shall annually provide information to the Committee 
        on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
        Senate on the Department's real property portfolio, including 
        information relating to the following:
                    ``(A) A summary of the Department's real property 
                holdings in each region described in the regional 
                strategies developed in accordance with subsection (a), 
                and for each such property, information including the 
                total square footage leased, the total cost, the total 
                number of staff at each such property, and the square 
                foot per person utilization rate for office space (and 
                whether or not such conforms with the workspace 
                standard net usable square foot ranges established 
                pursuant to subsection (b)(6)).
                    ``(B) An accounting of all underutilized space (as 
                such term is defined in subsection (e)).
                    ``(C) An accounting of all instances in which the 
                Department or its components consolidated their real 
                property holdings or co-located with another entity 
                within the Department.
                    ``(D) A list of all certifications provided 
                pursuant to subsection (d) and all such certifications 
                approved pursuant to paragraph (3) of this 
                subsection.''.
    (b) Reporting.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate copies of the regional strategies developed in accordance with 
section 710(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by 
subsection (a) of this section) not later than 90 days after the date 
of the development of each such strategy.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the 
item relating to section 709 the following new items:

``Sec. 710. Chief Facilities and Logistics Officer.
``Sec. 711. Long term real property strategies.''.
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