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Clearance and Over-Classification Reform and Reduction Act

S. 2683 · 113th Congress · Jul 29, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To reform classification and security clearance processes throughout the Federal Government and, within the Department of Homeland Security, to establish an effective and transparent process for the designation, investigation, adjudication, denial, suspension, and revocation of security clearances, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short titles; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Clearance and Over-Classification Reform and Reduction Act” or the “CORRECT Act”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
In general— The terms “agency”, “authorized investigative agency”, “authorized adjudicative agency”, “current investigation file”, “periodic reinvestigations”, and “personnel security investigation” 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)).
(2)
Other terms—
(A)
Chief Security Officer of the Department of Homeland Security— The term “Chief Security Officer of the Department of Homeland Security” means the Classified Information Advisory Officer of the Department of Homeland Security identified and designated pursuant to section 210F of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124m).
(B)
Investigation service provider— The term “investigation service provider” means the Office of Personnel Management and any other entity that undertakes investigative services, including criminal record checks, financial record checks, field interviews, employment review, and education verifications, for an investigation file for a national security position.
(C)
National security position— The term “national security position” has the meaning given that term in section 732.102 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations or similar successor regulation.