[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 940 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 940
To require each Member of Congress and the President and Vice President
to complete a program of training in handling and safeguarding
classified information, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 9, 2023
Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Zinke, and Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on House
Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To require each Member of Congress and the President and Vice President
to complete a program of training in handling and safeguarding
classified information, and for other purposes.
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 ``Information Security Investment Act
of 2023''.
SEC. 2. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TRAINING FOR
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
(a) Requirement.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Committee on House Administration of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration
of the Senate shall issue regulations to require each Member of the
House of Representatives and each Member of the Senate, respectively,
to complete a program of training in handling and safeguarding
classified information during each Congress.
(b) Deadline.--
(1) In general.--Under the regulations issued by the
Committee on House Administration of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration
of the Senate under subsection (a), an individual shall
complete the program of training required under such subsection
and file a certificate of completion of such training--
(A) in the case of an individual who is serving as
a Member of the House of Representatives or the Senate
as of the date of the first day of the first session of
a Congress, not later than 90 days after such date; or
(B) in the case of any other individual, not later
than 90 days after the date the individual first
becomes a Member of the House of Representatives or the
Senate during a Congress.
(2) Special rule for first session of one hundred
eighteenth congress.--In the case of the first session of the
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, an individual described in
subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) shall complete the program of
training required under subsection (a) not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) Member of the House of Representatives Defined.--In this
section, the term ``Member of the House of Representatives'' includes a
Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.
(d) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--The provisions of this section
are enacted by the Congress--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of
Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they
shall be considered as part of the rules of each House,
respectively, or of that House to which they specifically
apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the
extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such
House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent
as in the case of any other rule of such House.
SEC. 3. MANDATORY COMPLETION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TRAINING FOR
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall designate an appropriate agency or department of the
Federal Government to develop and provide a program of training in
handling and safeguarding classified information to the President and
Vice President.
(b) Deadline.--
(1) In general.--The President and Vice President shall
each complete the program of training described in subsection
(a) not later than 30 days after the date each such individual
begins serving a term as President or Vice President, and every
two years thereafter while each such individual continues to
serve as President or Vice President.
(2) Special rule for first training.--The President and
Vice President shall each, not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, complete the program of
training described in subsection (a).
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