Official Summaries

This resolution creates an exception to the House limit on the number of employees who may hold security clearances within certain Member offices. Specifically, any member of the Armed Forces who holds a security clearance issued by the Department of Defense does not count toward the number of employees of a Member who may hold security clearances issued by the Office of House Security. The exception applies to employees of Members on the Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, or Homeland Security; the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; or specified subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 46 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 46

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to exclude employees 
of the offices of Members who serve on certain committees of the House 
  from the allotment of the number of employees of the office who may 
 hold security clearances processed by the Office of House Security if 
  such employees are members of the armed forces who hold a security 
 clearance issued by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

Mr. Mills submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to exclude employees 
of the offices of Members who serve on certain committees of the House 
  from the allotment of the number of employees of the office who may 
 hold security clearances processed by the Office of House Security if 
  such employees are members of the armed forces who hold a security 
 clearance issued by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN HOUSE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF 
              ARMED FORCES FROM ALLOTMENT OF NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF 
              MEMBER OFFICE WHO MAY HOLD SECURITY CLEARANCES PROCESSED 
              BY THE OFFICE OF HOUSE SECURITY.

    Rule XXIX of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended 
by adding at the end the following new clause:
    ``5.(a) If an employee of the office of a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner described in paragraph (c) is a member of the 
armed forces who holds a security clearance issued by the Department of 
Defense, the employee shall not be included in determining the 
allotment of the number of employees of the office who may hold 
security clearances processed by the Office of House Security.
    ``(b) The level of the security clearance of an employee of an 
office who is described in paragraph (a) may not exceed the lower of--
            ``(1) the level of the clearance held by the employee which 
        was issued by the Department of Defense; or
            ``(2) the highest clearance level which may be sponsored by 
        the office for its employees.
    ``(c) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner described in 
this paragraph is a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
serves on any of the following Subcommittees or Committees of the House 
of Representatives:
            ``(1) The Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
        Appropriations.
            ``(2) The Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the 
        Committee on Appropriations.
            ``(3) The Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and 
        Related Programs of the Committee on Appropriations.
            ``(4) The Committee on Armed Services.
            ``(5) The Committee on Foreign Affairs.
            ``(6) The Committee on Homeland Security.
            ``(7) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.''.
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