[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5900 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5900

 To prohibit individuals from publicizing certain information relating 
                        to security clearances.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 6, 2023

                Mr. Gaetz introduced the following bill

                            October 25, 2023

               Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit individuals from publicizing certain information relating 
                        to security clearances.

    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 ``Security Clearance Revolving Door 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PUBLICIZING CERTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO 
              SECURITY CLEARANCES.

    (a) Prohibition on Publicizing Certain Information Relating to 
Security Clearance.--Chapter 93 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1925. Prohibition on publicizing certain information relating to 
              security clearances
    ``(a) Offense.--Whoever, having received notice of a favorable 
adjudication with respect to a security clearance investigation, 
periodic reinvestigation, or other determination of eligibility to 
access classified information by an authorized adjudicative agency, 
publishes the fact of such favorable adjudication during the period of 
the current investigation file shall be fined not more than $1000, 
imprisoned for a term of not more than one year, or both.
    ``(b) Exception.--It shall not be an offense under this section for 
an individual who has received a favorable adjudication specified in 
subsection (a) to include the fact of such favorable adjudication in 
connection with an application for a position of employment or for a 
governmental contract (or a subcontract thereof), where such favorable 
adjudication is a requirement for such employment or contract.
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms `authorized 
adjudicative agency', `current investigation file', and `periodic 
reinvestigation' have the meanings given those terms in section 3001(a) 
of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 
U.S.C. 3341(a)).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents at the beginning of 
chapter 93 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 1924 the following new section:

``1925. Prohibition on publicizing certain information relating to 
                            security clearances.''.
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