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HR 7274 Cleared committee

Expands the Federal Acquisition Security Council's authority to bar risky foreign-linked suppliers from federal purchases and sets deadlines for the council and federal officials to act on those bars.

Official title: Federal Acquisition Security Council Improvement Act of 2026

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 30-JAN-2026
Referred 30-JAN-2026
Approved by committee 04-FEB-2026
Key points
  • Adds acquisition security to the council's mission and lets it recommend and issue orders that exclude covered sources of concern from federal procurement or remove their covered articles from agency systems.
  • Requires the council to issue an order within 270 days after a source is statutorily designated as a covered source of concern, or report to Congress why it did not.
  • Requires the Homeland Security, Defense, and National Intelligence officials to act on recommended orders within 90 days, allows waivers of up to 365 days, and caps order effective dates at 365 days.
  • Restructures council membership to include officials from the intelligence community, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, GSA, the National Cyber Director's office, and Commerce, and creates a Program Office in the Executive Office of the President.
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Government Operations and Politics

Sponsor William R. Timmons (R-SC) Cosponsors · 3
■ 2 D■ 1 R
1 Republican