[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1407 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1407

To amend title 40, United States Code, to enhance security at executive 
  and judicial branch facilities by requiring locksmiths who provide 
    locksmith services at such a facility to be credentialed, which 
        includes undergoing a criminal history background check.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2003

 Mr. Sessions introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 40, United States Code, to enhance security at executive 
  and judicial branch facilities by requiring locksmiths who provide 
    locksmith services at such a facility to be credentialed, which 
        includes undergoing a criminal history background check.

    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 ``Federal Facilities Locksmith 
Services Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CREDENTIALED LOCKSMITHS TO PROVIDE LOCKSMITH SERVICES IN 
              FEDERAL FACILITIES.

    (a) Use of Credentialed Locksmith.--Chapter 5 of title 40, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 593 the following 
new section:
``Sec. 594. Use of credentialed locksmiths to provide locksmith 
              services in executive facilities
    ``(a) Use of Credentialed Locksmiths.--The Administrator of General 
Services shall ensure that every locksmith who provides locksmith 
services in an executive facility is credentialed as provided in 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Credentialing Requirements.--To be a credentialed locksmith 
for purposes of subsection (a), a locksmith must--
            ``(1) be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting 
        agency or association;
            ``(2) satisfactorily undergo a criminal history background 
        check conducted using the national criminal history background 
        check system and State criminal history repositories of all 
        States in which the locksmith has resided; and
            ``(3) satisfy established industry standards of 
        professional education or training.
    ``(c) Designation of Accrediting Agencies.--For purposes of 
subsection (b), the Administrator shall publish a list of nationally 
recognized accrediting agencies or associations that the Administrator 
determines to be reliable authority regarding the performance of a 
criminal history background check and the quality of the education or 
training of the locksmith seeking credentialing.
    ``(d) Relation to State Licensing Laws.--Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to supersede any provision of State law that 
establishes licensing requirements for locksmiths.
    ``(e) Limitation of Liability.--No action may be brought against an 
accrediting agency or association, or its employees, for the denial of 
accreditation based upon reliance on information provided by a Federal 
or State governmental agency.
    ``(f) Recovery of Costs.--The Administrator may require a locksmith 
seeking credentialing to pay the reasonable fees and expenses incurred 
to conduct the background check and other investigations required as a 
condition of obtaining the credentialing.
    ``(g) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Executive facility.--The term `executive facility' 
        has the meaning given the term in section 590(f) of this title.
            ``(2) Locksmith.--The term `locksmith' means an individual 
        who--
                    ``(A) provides locksmith services to the public for 
                any type of compensation; or
                    ``(B) otherwise holds himself or herself out to the 
                public as a locksmith.
            ``(3) Locksmith services.--The term `locksmith services' 
        means--
                    ``(A) servicing, installing, repairing, rebuilding, 
                rekeying, repining, or adjusting locks, mechanical or 
                electronic access control security devices, safes, 
                vaults, or safe deposit boxes; and
                    ``(B) operating a mechanical or electrical security 
                device, safe, or vault by a means other than those 
                intended by the manufacturer of the device, safe or 
                vault.
            ``(4) National criminal history background check system.--
        The term `national criminal history background check system' 
        has the meaning given the term in section 5 of the National 
        Child Protection Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 5119c).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
593 the following new item:

``594. Use of credentialed locksmiths to provide locksmith services in 
                            executive facilities.''.
    (c) Regulations.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of General Services, in 
consultation with the Attorney General, shall issue such rules as may 
be necessary to carry out section 594 of title 40, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a), including measures relating to the 
security, confidentiality, processing, cost reimbursement, use, 
dissemination, maintenance, and destruction of criminal background 
check records and other information obtained pursuant to such section.
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