HR3425-119

What This Bill Does

The POST Act of 2025 focuses on the contract guards who protect buildings and grounds owned, occupied, or secured by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service. Within one year, the Director of the Federal Protective Service must establish stronger oversight, performance, and accountability processes for contract security personnel. FPS must create uniform standards for covert-testing data, document test outcomes, identify root causes of failures, categorize vulnerabilities, conduct quarterly analytics to find trends and recurring deficiencies, direct the relevant security contractor to establish cause-specific corrective training and performance-improvement plans for guards who fail covert tests, review those plans, and update security training guidance based on covert-testing findings, emerging threats, and best practices. Within 180 days, FPS must evaluate its personnel tracking system, decide whether to replace it with a more reliable platform or fix it, publish an implementation plan, and create procedures to notify building tenants about guard shortages, absences, or security coverage gaps. FPS must report annually on both workstreams, and the bill clarifies that DHS contractor guards protecting federal property do not become federal employees.

Who Benefits and How

Federal building tenants, federal building occupants, General Services Administration Public Buildings Service managers, Federal Protective Service supervisors, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff, personnel tracking system vendors, private security training providers, and visitors to covered federal facilities benefit because the bill creates more reliable data on guard performance, faster identification of coverage gaps, corrective training after failed covert tests, and clearer tenant communication about shortages or absences.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Federal Protective Service, FPS data analysts, FPS training officials, security contractors serving federal buildings, contract security personnel, DHS contractor oversight staff, personnel tracking system vendors, private security training providers, and GSA building managers bear burdens because they must collect and analyze covert-testing data, build quarterly review processes, create corrective training and performance-improvement plans, update training guidance, evaluate or replace the personnel tracking platform, publish implementation plans, notify tenants of coverage gaps, and report to Congress annually.

Key Provisions

• Requires FPS to establish stronger oversight, performance, and accountability processes for contract security personnel within one year.
• Requires uniform covert-testing data standards, root-cause documentation, vulnerability categories, and quarterly analytical reviews.
• Requires security contractors to provide cause-specific corrective training and performance-improvement plans after failed covert tests.
• Requires FPS to evaluate, replace, or fix its personnel tracking system within 180 days and publish an implementation plan.
• Requires procedures for timely tenant communication about guard shortages, absences, and security coverage gaps.
• Requires annual congressional reports and preserves contractor guards' non-federal employee status.