S.Amdt. 565

SA 565. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. IMPROVING VISIBILITY INTO THE SECURITY CLEARANCE
PROCESS.

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, acting as
the Security Executive Agent in accordance with Executive
Order 13467 (73 Fed. Reg. 38103; 50 U.S.C. 3161 note;
relating to reforming processes related to suitability for
government employment, fitness for contractor employees, and
eligibility for access to classified national security
information), as in effect on the day before the date of the
enactment of this Act, shall issue a policy that requires not
later than December 31, 2023, for government agencies to have
access to an operational electronic portal that can be used
by human resources personnel and applicants for security
clearances to view information about the status of an
application for a security clearance and the average time
required for each phase of the security clearance process.
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