[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15609]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        SECURITY CLEARANCE OVERSIGHT AND REFORM ENHANCEMENT ACT

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to Calendar No. 199, S. 1276.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1276) to increase oversight of the Revolving 
     Fund of the Office of Personnel Management, strengthen the 
     authority to terminate or debar employees and contractors 
     involved in misconduct affecting the integrity of security 
     clearance background investigations, enhance transparency 
     regarding the criteria utilized by Federal departments and 
     agencies to determine when a security clearance is required, 
     and so forth and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs, with an amendment to strike all after the 
enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Security Clearance Oversight 
     and Reform Enhancement Act''.

     SEC. 2. OVERSIGHT OF THE REVOLVING FUND OF THE OFFICE OF 
                   PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT.

       Section 1304(e) of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), in the first sentence, by inserting 
     before the period the following: ``, and for the cost of 
     audits, investigations, and oversight activities relating to 
     the fund and the functions financed by the fund, conducted by 
     the Inspector General of the Office''; and
       (2) in paragraph (5), by adding at the end the following: 
     ``Each budget submitted under this paragraph shall include an 
     estimate from the Inspector General of the Office of the 
     amount required to pay the reasonable expenses to adequately 
     audit, investigate, and perform other oversight activities 
     relating to the fund and the functions financed by the fund 
     for the applicable fiscal year, which shall not exceed 0.33 
     percent of the total budgetary authority requested in the 
     budget estimates submitted to Congress by the Office for that 
     fiscal year.''.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee-
reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be 
read a third time and passed, the Carper title amendment, which is at 
the desk, be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the 
table with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.
  The bill (S. 1276), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.
  The amendment (No. 2001) was agreed to, as follows:

                     (Purpose: To amend the title)

       Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to increase 
     oversight of the Revolving Fund of the Office of Personnel 
     Management.''.

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