3.0.0 314 2022-11-01T15:17:46Z 2022-11-01T15:17:46Z Senate S 2019-01-31 116 slin00 Intelligence (Select) Committee Senate Select Referred to 2019-01-31T22:45:54Z Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 116 245 S 2019-01-28 Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. Related bill CRS Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 116 1589 S 2019-06-11 By Senator Burr from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 116-47. Additional views filed. Related bill CRS 2019-01-31 slin00 Intelligence (Select) Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. IntroReferral 2019-01-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000805 Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] Mark Warner D VA R. N Armed Forces and National Security Appropriations Congressional oversight Criminal justice information and records Employment discrimination and employee rights Executive agency funding and structure Federal officials Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information Performance measurement Personnel records Public contracts and procurement Right of privacy Armed Forces and National Security 00 2019-01-31 Introduced in Senate 2020-08-11T15:11:07Z Modernizing the Trusted Workforce for the 21st Century Act of 2019

This bill directs various agencies to report on, and devise plans to improve, systems for handling security clearances and background checks.

The Security, Suitability, and Credentialing Performance Accountability Council shall provide Congress with a plan to reduce the background investigation backlog and to consolidate security clearance processes to improve efficiency.

The Director of National Intelligence, or another individual selected by the President, shall serve as the Security Executive Agent for all U.S. departments and agencies. The agent shall establish a policy and implementation plan for improving security clearance procedures.

The agent shall report to Congress on (1) ways to improve or simplify investigation procedures; (2) the feasibility of the clearance in person concept, which permits an individual to maintain access to classified information for up to three years after leaving a cleared position; and (3) protections for the confidentiality of whistleblower-related communications in continuous vetting programs.

Federal departments and agencies shall report annually to the agent certain information related to reciprocal recognition of security clearances when an individual moves between positions within the department or agency, and the agent shall summarize and report such information to Congress.

The bill imposes various targets for reducing the pendency of secret and top secret level clearance determinations. It also requires reports to Congress on various topics, such as the feasibility of having no more than three tiers of trust and security clearance positions.


]]> Modernizing the Trusted Workforce for the 21st Century Act of 2019 Display Title Modernizing the Trusted Workforce for the 21st Century Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Modernizing the Trusted Workforce for the 21st Century Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the processing and oversight by the Federal Government of security clearances and background investigations and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s314is/xml/BILLS-116s314is.xml 2019-01-31 Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. 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.