To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for certain succession reforms, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-8992
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2020-12-16
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Homeland Security

Federal officials

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill modifies the line of succession for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill provides that the Under Secretary for Management shall serve as the Acting Secretary if the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Associate Secretary are not available to exercise the duties of the Office of the Secretary. Current law makes no reference to the Associate Secretary.</p> <p>The bill contains further requirements, including that an official must have served in DHS for at least 90 days prior to the designation to be within the line of succession to serve as acting head of a DHS component.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8992 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2020 Miss Rice of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for certain succession reforms, and for other purposes.

1. Succession reforms Subsection (g) of section 103 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 113 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking neither the Secretary nor Deputy Secretary is and inserting the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Associate Secretary are not ; and (2) in paragraph (2), by striking designate such other officers of the Department in further order of succession to serve as Acting Secretary. and inserting designate— (A) such other official of the Department in further order of succession to serve as Acting Secretary in a manner that requires such official to have served in the Department for at least 90 days prior to such designation in either the position of the head of a component or in another position by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or in the event that an official satisfying such criteria is not available, in a manner that requires such official to have served for at least 90 days prior to such designation in the Senior Executive Service in the Department; and (B) such other official of the Department to serve as the acting head of a component in the event the head of a component vacates the position, in a manner that requires such official to have served for at least 90 days prior to such designation in the Senior Executive Service. .