CPRA

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1538 To decrease the deficit by realigning, consolidating, disposing, and improving the efficiency of Federal buildings and other civilian real property, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 16, 2019 Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. BRAUN) intro- duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com- mittee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To decrease the deficit by realigning, consolidating, dis- posing, and improving the efficiency of Federal buildings and other civilian real property, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Civilian Property Re- 4 alignment Act of 2019’’ or ‘‘CPRA’’. 5 SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 6 The purposes of this Act are— 7 (1) to consolidate the footprint of Federal 8 buildings and facilities; 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •S 1538 IS (2) to maximize the rate of use of Federal 1 buildings and facilities; 2 (3) to reduce the reliance of the Federal Gov- 3 ernment on leased space; 4 (4) to sell or redevelop high-value assets that 5 are underused to obtain the highest and best value 6 for the taxpayer and maximize the return to the tax- 7 payer; 8 (5) to reduce the operating and maintenance 9 costs of Federal civilian real properties through the 10 realignment of real properties by consolidating, co- 11 locating, and reconfiguring space, and by imple- 12 menting other operational efficiencies; 13 (6) to reduce redundancy, overlap, and costs as- 14 sociated with field offices; 15 (7) to facilitate and expedite the disposal of 16 unneeded civilian properties; and 17 (8) to assist Federal agencies in achieving sus- 18 tainability goals of the Federal Government by re- 19 ducing excess space, inventory, and energy consump- 20 tion, as well as by leveraging new technologies. 21 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 22 Section 3 of the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer 23 Act of 2016 (40 U.S.C. 1303 note; Public Law 114–287) 24 is amended— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •S 1538 IS (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 1 (9) as paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (11), 2 respectively; 3 (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol- 4 lowing: 5 ‘‘(4) DISPOSAL.—The term ‘disposal’ means 6 any action that constitutes the removal of any Fed- 7 eral civilian real property from the Federal inven- 8 tory, including sale, deed, demolition, or exchange.’’; 9 and 10 (3) by inserting after paragraph (9) (as so re- 11 designated) the following: 12 ‘‘(10) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ 13 means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop- 14 ment.’’. 15 SEC. 4. DUTIES OF BOARD. 16 Section 12 of the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer 17 Act of 2016 (40 U.S.C. 1303 note; Public Law 114–287) 18 is amended— 19 (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 20 following: 21 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Board shall identify— 22 ‘‘(1) opportunities for the Federal Government 23 to reduce significantly the inventory of civilian real 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 4 •S 1538 IS property and reduce costs to the Federal Govern- 1 ment; and 2 ‘‘(2) a total savings to the Federal Government 3 of not less than $9,000,000,000 from the disposal of 4 Federal civilian real property under this Act, which 5 may be achieved through opportunities such as the 6 sale of Federal civilian real property and the termi- 7 nation of leases, colocation, maintenance, operations, 8 and security activities.’’; 9 (2) in subsection (b)— 10 (A) in paragraph (1)— 11 (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 12 ‘‘and not more than $750,000,000’’; and 13 (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 14 ‘‘transmit the list of the Federal civilian 15 real properties to the Director of OMB and 16 Congress’’ and inserting ‘‘submit to the 17 President and Congress the list of the Fed- 18 eral civilian real properties’’; and 19 (B) in paragraph (6)— 20 (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 21 ‘‘section 14(g)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 22 16(d)’’; and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 5 •S 1538 IS (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 1 ‘‘Director of OMB’’ and inserting ‘‘Presi- 2 dent’’; and 3 (3) in subsection (g)— 4 (A) in paragraph (1), in the matter pre- 5 ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘transmit 6 to the Director of OMB’’ and inserting ‘‘submit 7 to the President’’; and 8 (B) in paragraph (2)— 9 (i) in subparagraph (A)— 10 (I) in the first sentence, by strik- 11 ing ‘‘transmit to the Director of 12 OMB’’ and inserting ‘‘submit to the 13 President’’; and 14 (II) in the second sentence, by 15 striking ‘‘$2,500,000,000’’ and insert- 16 ing ‘‘$4,000,000,000’’; and 17 (ii) in subparagraph (B)— 18 (I) in the first sentence— 19 (aa) by striking ‘‘Not earlier 20 than 3 years’’ and inserting ‘‘Not 21 later than 2 years’’; and 22 (bb) by striking ‘‘transmit to 23 the Director of OMB’’ and in- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 6 •S 1538 IS serting ‘‘submit to the Presi- 1 dent’’; and 2 (II) in the second sentence, by 3 striking ‘‘$4,750,000,000’’ and insert- 4 ing ‘‘$5,000,000,000’’. 5 SEC. 5. REVIEW BY PRESIDENT. 6 Section 13 of the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer 7 Act of 2016 (40 U.S.C. 1303 note; Public Law 114–287) 8 is amended to read as follows: 9 ‘‘SEC. 13. REVIEW BY PRESIDENT. 10 ‘‘(a) REVIEW AND REPORT.—The President shall— 11 ‘‘(1) on receipt of the recommendations of the 12 Board under subsections (b) and (g) of section 12, 13 conduct a review of the recommendations; and 14 ‘‘(2) not later than 30 days after the date of re- 15 ceipt of the recommendations, submit to the Board 16 and Congress a report that describes the approval or 17 disapproval of the President of the recommenda- 18 tions. 19 ‘‘(b) APPROVAL AND DISAPPROVAL.—If the Presi- 20 dent— 21 ‘‘(1) approves the recommendations of the 22 Board, the President shall submit to Congress a 23 copy of the recommendations, together with a certifi- 24 cation of the approval; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 7 •S 1538 IS ‘‘(2) disapproves of the recommendations of the 1 Board, in whole or in part— 2 ‘‘(A) the President shall submit to the 3 Board and Congress the reasons for the dis- 4 approval; and 5 ‘‘(B) not later than 30 days after the date 6 of disapproval, the Board shall submit to the 7 President and Congress a revised list of rec- 8 ommendations; and 9 ‘‘(3) approves the revised recommendations of 10 the Board submitted under paragraph (2)(B), the 11 President shall submit to Congress a copy of the re- 12 vised recommendations, together with a certification 13 of the approval.’’. 14 SEC. 6. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF REC- 15 OMMENDATIONS. 16 Section 14 of the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer 17 Act of 2016 (40 U.S.C. 1303 note; Public Law 114–287) 18 is amended to read as follows: 19 ‘‘SEC. 14. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF REC- 20 OMMENDATIONS. 21 ‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF JOINT RESOLUTION.—In this 22 section, the term ‘joint resolution’ means only a joint reso- 23 lution— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 8 •S 1538 IS ‘‘(1) that is introduced during the 10-day pe- 1 riod beginning on the date on which the President 2 submits an approval and certification of rec- 3 ommendations to Congress under paragraph (1) or 4 (3) of section 13(b); 5 ‘‘(2) that does not have a preamble; 6 ‘‘(3) the matter after the resolving clause of 7 which is as follows: ‘That Congress disapproves the 8 recommendations of the Public Buildings Reform 9 Board as submitted by the President on 10 lllllllll’, the blank space being filled 11 in with the appropriate date; and 12 ‘‘(4) the title of which is as follows: ‘A Joint 13 Resolution disapproving the recommendations of the 14 Public Buildings Reform Board’. 15 ‘‘(b) RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL.—Not later than 16 45 days after the date on which the President submits 17 to Congress an approval and certification of recommenda- 18 tions under paragraph (1) or (3) of section 13(b), Con- 19 gress may enact a joint resolution to disapprove the rec- 20 ommendations of the Board. 21 ‘‘(c) COMPUTATION OF TIME PERIOD.—For the pur- 22 poses of this section, the days on which either House of 23 Congress is not in session because of adjournment of more 24 than 3 days to a day certain shall be excluded in the com- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 9 •S 1538 IS putation of the period of time described in subsection 1 (a)(1). 2 ‘‘(d) REFERRAL.— 3 ‘‘(1) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—A joint 4 resolution that is introduced in the House of Rep- 5 resentatives shall be referred to the Committee on 6 Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 7 Representatives. 8 ‘‘(2) SENATE.—A joint resolution that is intro- 9 duced in the Senate shall be referred to the Com- 10 mittee on Environment and Public Works of the 11 Senate. 12 ‘‘(e) DISCHARGE.—If the committee to which a joint 13 resolution is referred has not reported the joint resolution 14 (or an identical resolution) by the end of the 20-day period 15 beginning on the date on which the President submits the 16 report to Congress under section 13(a)(2)— 17 ‘‘(1) the committee shall be, at the end of that 18 period, discharged from further consideration of the 19 joint resolution; and 20 ‘‘(2) the joint resolution shall be placed on the 21 appropriate calendar of the House involved. 22 ‘‘(f) CONSIDERATION.— 23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On or after the third day 24 after the date on which the committee to which a 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 10 •S 1538 IS joint resolution is referred has reported, or has been 1 discharged under subsection (e) from further consid- 2 eration of, such a joint resolution, it is in order, re- 3 gardless of whether a previous motion to the same 4 effect has been disagreed to, for any Member of the 5 respective House to move to proceed to the consider- 6 ation of the joint resolution. 7 ‘‘(2) MOTIONS.— 8 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A Member may make 9 a motion described in paragraph (1) only on the 10 date after the calendar day on which the Mem- 11 ber announces to the House concerned the in- 12 tention of the Member to make the motion, ex- 13 cept that, in the case of the House of Rep- 14 resentatives, the motion may be made without 15 such a prior announcement if the motion is 16 made by direction of the committee to which 17 the joint resolution was referred. 18 ‘‘(B) PRIVILEGE; AMENDMENT.—A motion 19 made under paragraph (1) is— 20 ‘‘(i) highly privileged in the House of 21 Representatives, privileged in the Senate, 22 and not debatable; and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 11 •S 1538 IS ‘‘(ii) not subject to amendment, a mo- 1 tion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to 2 the consideration of other business. 3 ‘‘(C) OTHER MOTIONS.— 4 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—A motion to re- 5 consider the vote by which a motion made 6 under paragraph (1) is agreed to or dis- 7 agreed to shall not be in order. 8 ‘‘(ii) AGREEMENT.—If a motion to 9 proceed to consideration of the joint reso- 10 lution is agreed to— 11 ‘‘(I) the respective House shall 12 immediately proceed to the consider- 13 ation of the joint resolution without 14 intervening motion, order, or other 15 business; and 16 ‘‘(II) the joint resolution shall re- 17 main the unfinished business of the 18 respective House until disposed of. 19 ‘‘(3) DEBATE.— 20 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Debate on a joint res- 21 olution and on all debatable motions and ap- 22 peals in connection with the joint resolution 23 shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, di- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 12 •S 1538 IS vided equally between those favoring and those 1 opposing the joint resolution. 2 ‘‘(B) AMENDMENTS.—An amendment to 3 the joint resolution is not in order. 4 ‘‘(C) MOTION TO FURTHER LIMIT DE- 5 BATE.—A motion further to limit debate on the 6 joint resolution is in order and not debatable. 7 ‘‘(D) OTHER MOTIONS.—A motion to post- 8 pone, to proceed to the consideration of other 9 business, to recommit the joint resolution, or to 10 reconsider the vote by which the resolution is 11 agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. 12 ‘‘(4) VOTE.—Immediately following the conclu- 13 sion of the debate on a joint resolution and a single 14 quorum call at the conclusion of the debate, if re- 15 quested in accordance with the rules of the appro- 16 priate House, the vote on final passage of the joint 17 resolution shall occur. 18 ‘‘(5) APPEALS OF DECISIONS OF CHAIR.—Ap- 19 peals of the decisions of the Chair relating to the ap- 20 plication of the rules of the Senate or the House of 21 Representatives, as the case may be, to the proce- 22 dure relating to a joint resolution shall be decided 23 without debate. 24 ‘‘(g) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:46 May 28, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1538.IS S1538 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 13 •S 1538 IS ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, before the passage by a 1 House of Congress of a joint resolution of that 2 House, that House receives from the other House of 3 Congress a joint resolution, the following procedures 4 shall apply: 5 ‘‘(A) NO COMMITTEE REFERRAL.—The 6 joint resolution of the other House shall not be 7 referred to a committee and may not be consid- 8 ered in the House receiving the joint resolution 9 except in the case of final passage as provided 10 in subparagraph (B). 11 ‘‘(B) RESOLUTION PROCEDURE.—With r [Text truncated for display. 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