3.0.0 2269 2022-11-01T13:50:23Z 2022-11-01T13:50:23Z Senate S 2019-07-25 116 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-07-25T17:06:57Z 2019-07-25 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2019-07-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N Government Operations and Politics Building construction District of Columbia Executive agency funding and structure Government buildings, facilities, and property Maryland Virginia Government Operations and Politics 00 2019-07-25 Introduced in Senate 2020-10-07T18:37:19Z Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement Act of 2019 or the SWAMP Act

This bill repeals the requirement that all offices attached to the seat of government be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere. It prohibits new construction or major renovation of certain executive agency headquarters in the Washington Metropolitan area.

The General Services Administration (GSA) must (1) establish a process to allow an executive agency to request GSA to issue a solicitation for the relocation of its headquarters; (2) allow any state to submit a proposal for the relocation of the agency's headquarters; and (3) in consultation with the executive agency, select a state for the relocation of the agency's headquarters using a competitive bidding procedure based on certain considerations.

]]> SWAMP Act Display Title SWAMP Act Short Title(s) as Introduced SWAMP Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a competitive bidding process for the relocation of the headquarters of Executive agencies, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2269is/xml/BILLS-116s2269is.xml 2019-07-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.