US Congress Senate Bill 3135 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)
Status: Introduced on July 6 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-07-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs 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

Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]
Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]
Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. David Perdue [R-GA]	Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]	Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]
Sen. John Thune [R-SD]	Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]	Sen. Mike Rounds [R-SD]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-07-06	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3135/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s3135/BILLS-114s3135is.pdf