Sec. 5603. GOVERNMENT-WIDE STUDY

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## SEC. 5603 GOVERNMENT-WIDE STUDY ###

(a)Coordination Study The Administrator, in coordination with the Director of the Federal Protective Service, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and any other relevant entities, as determined by the Administrator, shall carry out a Government-wide study examining options to assist agencies (as defined in section 551 of title 5, United States Code) to produce a security assessment process for high-security leased adjacent space before entering into a lease or novation agreement with a covered entity for the purposes of accommodating a Federal tenant located in a high-security leased space. ###

(b)Contents The study required under subsection (a)— ####

(1)shall evaluate how to produce a security assessment process that includes a process for assessing the threat level of each occupancy of a high-security leased adjacent space, including through— #####

(A)site-visits; #####

(B)interviews; and #####

(C)any other relevant activities determined necessary by the Director of the Federal Protective Service; and ####

(2)may include a process for collecting and using information on each immediate owner, highest-level owner, or beneficial owner of a covered entity that seeks to enter into a lease with a Federal lessee for a high-security leased adjacent space, including— #####

(A)name; #####

(B)current residential or business street address; and #####

(C)an identifying number or document that verifies identity as a United States person, a foreign person, or a foreign entity. ###

(c)Working Group ####

(1)In general Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with the Director of Federal Protective Service, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and any other relevant entities, as determined by the Administrator, shall establish a working group to assist in the carrying out of the study required under subsection (a). ####

(2)No compensation A member of the working group established under paragraph

(1)shall receive no compensation as a result of serving on the working group. ####

(3)Sunset The working group established under paragraph

(1)shall terminate on the date on which the report required under subsection

(f)is submitted. ###

(d)Protection of Information The Administrator shall ensure that any information collected pursuant to the study required under subsection

(a)shall not be made available to the public. ###

(e)Limitation Nothing in this section requires an entity located in the United States to provide information requested pursuant to the study required under subsection (a). ###

(f)Report Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in coordination with the Director of Federal Protective Service, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and any other relevant entities, as determined by the Administrator, shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report describing— ####

(1)the results of the study required under subsection (a); and ####

(2)how all applicable privacy laws and rights relating to the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States would be upheld and followed in— #####

(A)the security assessment process described in paragraph

(1)of subsection (b); and #####

(B)the information collection process described in paragraph

(2)of that subsection. ###

(g)Limitation Nothing in this section authorizes a Federal entity to mandate information gathering unless specifically authorized by law. ###

(h)Prohibition No information collected pursuant the security assessment process described in subsection (b)(1) may be used for law enforcement purposes. ###

(i)No Additional Funding No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section. ## Subtitle B Other Matters