Title: White House Security Clearance Accountability Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
White House Security Clearance Accountability Act
This bill requires the revocation or denial of security clearance for certain individuals and requires a report related to these individuals.
Specifically, the bill revokes the security clearance of an individual who is in a position in the Executive Office of the President and (1) who is under investigation by a federal law enforcement agency for aiding a foreign government, or (2) who knowingly fails to disclose any relationship or contact with a foreign national on their security clearance form. It also prohibits the issuance or renewal of security clearance under these circumstances.
Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must submit a report to Congress on any instance since January 20, 2017, in which an individual who is in a position in the Executive Office of the President was granted a security clearance against the recommendation of the White House Security Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or any other federal agency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1604 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1604

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to deny security clearances to 
  any employee of the Executive Office of the President who is under 
investigation by a Federal law enforcement agency for aiding a foreign 
government or who fails to disclose contacts with foreign nationals on 
               Standard Form 86, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2019

   Ms. Wasserman Schultz (for herself, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
  Hastings, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. 
 Johnson of Georgia, and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to deny security clearances to 
  any employee of the Executive Office of the President who is under 
investigation by a Federal law enforcement agency for aiding a foreign 
government or who fails to disclose contacts with foreign nationals on 
               Standard Form 86, 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 ``White House Security Clearance 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON SECURITY CLEARANCES FOR CERTAIN EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
              OF THE PRESIDENT EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 3110 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) A security clearance--
            ``(A) granted to any covered individual before the date of 
        enactment of this subsection is hereby revoked; and
            ``(B) may not be granted or renewed for any covered 
        individual after such date.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `covered individual' means any 
individual occupying a position in the Executive Office of the 
President--
            ``(A) who is under investigation by a Federal law 
        enforcement agency for aiding a foreign government; or
            ``(B) who knowingly fails, or knowingly failed, to disclose 
        (on Standard Form 86 or any successor form), to the extent such 
        form requires such disclosure, any relationship or contact with 
        a foreign national.''.
    (b) GAO Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs describing any instance during the 
period beginning on January 20, 2017, and ending on the date of 
enactment of this Act in which an individual occupying a position in 
the Executive Office of the President was granted a security clearance 
despite an unfavorable recommendation from the White House Security 
Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or any other Federal 
agency. Such report shall include the name and position of any such 
individual and the date the decision was made to grant the clearance.
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