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H.R. 2605, Secret Service Reauthorization Act of 2017 1 (June 23, 2017)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

Ct                            COST ESTIMATE
                                                                     June 23, 2017



                                  H.R.   2605
                 Secret  Service Reauthorization Act of 2017

     As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 24, 2017


H.R. 2605 would authorize the Secret Service to construct facilities for training its officers
and agents and would direct the agency to establish an office to provide ethics training for
employees. According to the Secret Service, the agency is already constructing the
facilities that would be specifically authorized by the legislation. Consequently,
implementing H.R. 2605 would not affect spending for that activity. Based on information
from the Secret Service, CBO estimates that it would cost less than $500,000 annually to
operate the ethics office required by the legislation, that spending would be subject to the
availability of appropriated funds.

H.R. 2605 also would broaden the coverage of current laws against accessing restricted
buildings and threatening a former Vice President of the United States. CBO expects that
the legislation would apply to a relatively small number of offenders, however, so any
increase in costs for law enforcement, court proceedings, or prison operations would not be
significant.

Because those prosecuted and convicted under H.R. 2605 could be subject to criminal
fines, the federal government might collect additional fines under the bill. Criminal fines
are recorded as revenues, deposited in the Crime Victims Fund, and are available to spend
without further appropriation action; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However,
CBO  estimates that such effects would be insignificant because of the small number of
cases likely to be affected.

CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 2605 would not increase net direct spending or
on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

H.R. 2605 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded  Mandates Reform  Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

The CBO   staff contact for this estimate is Mark Grabowicz. The estimate was approved by
H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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