SPACE Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the General Services Administration, when implementing the 2024 shared-space mandate, to collaborate with federal tenants, develop criteria for expanded space-sharing or collocation, identify useful special-use spaces, establish measurable objectives for success, and brief Congress within six months.
Who Benefits and How
Federal agencies and taxpayers could benefit if better collaboration produces more efficient use of leased space and clearer standards for sharing or collocating federal offices.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The General Services Administration must conduct the collaboration, develop criteria and metrics, and report its implementation progress to Congress, while tenant agencies must participate in the consultation.
Key Provisions
- Requires GSA to collaborate with tenants of federally leased space to identify concerns around shared-space arrangements.
- Requires GSA to develop criteria to facilitate expanded space-sharing or collocating and to identify how special-use spaces can improve those arrangements.
- Requires GSA, in consultation with tenants, to establish measurable objectives to quantify the success of shared-space arrangements.
- Requires a congressional briefing on implementation within six months after enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the General Services Administration, when implementing the 2024 shared-space mandate, to collaborate with federal tenants, develop criteria for expanded space-sharing or collocation, identify useful special-use spaces, establish measurable objectives for success, and brief Congress within six months.
Key Policy Areas
Federal Property, Government Efficiency
Primary Purpose
Requires the General Services Administration, when implementing the 2024 shared-space mandate, to collaborate with federal tenants, develop criteria for expanded space-sharing or collocation, identify useful special-use spaces, establish measurable objectives for success, and brief Congress within six months.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal agencies and taxpayers that may benefit from more efficient use of leased federal space
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- The General Services Administration and tenant agencies that must plan, coordinate, and report on shared-space arrangements
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Additional sponsors: Mr. Pappas and Mr. Lawler
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3880-3881)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Federal agencies occupying leased space, General Services Administration
Positive-direction: Federal agencies occupying leased space
Negative-direction: General Services Administration
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
SPACE Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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