US Congress House Bill 5697 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on July 8 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-07-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Taking Responsibility Using Secured Technologies Act of 2016 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should have any security clearance she holds revoked and should be denied access to classified information unless she earns the legal right to such access, and (2) any of her colleagues who demonstrated extreme carelessness in their handling of classified information should no longer have access to that information. The bill prohibits granting a security clearance to, and requires revocation of the security clearance of, any federal officer or employee who has exercised extreme carelessness in the handling of classified information. The bill also amends a provision of the federal criminal code that subjects to criminal penalties anyone entrusted with, or having lawful possession or control of, national defense information who, through gross negligence, permits that information to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed. The bill explicitly states that "gross negligence," for these purposes, includes extreme or reckless carelessness.

Taking Responsibility Using Secured Technologies Act of 2016

Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Mick Mulvaney [R-SC]	Rep. Kristi Noem [R-SD]
Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]	Rep. Jim Bridenstine [R-OK]
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Jody Hice [R-GA]	Rep. David Rouzer [R-NC]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]
Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-07-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2016-07-08	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2016-07-08	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2016-07-08	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
2016-07-08	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5697/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr5697/BILLS-114hr5697ih.pdf