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.
