A bill to limit the ability of federal agencies to use past marijuana use as a factor in making employment and security clearance decisions would have a negligible economic impact on the government, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says.
In a new report released on Tuesday, CBO scored the Dismantling Outdated Obstacles and Barriers to Individual Employment, or DOOBIE Act that passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month.
Analysts determined that the legislation would not have any significant impact on direct spending or add to the deficit if enacted, in large part because the White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) have already “issued guidance to all federal agencies stating that past marijuana use should not automatically disqualify an applicant from federal employment or from receiving a security clearance.”
“Such information may be relevant, but not determinative” in current federal employment decisions, the new analysis says. “As such, CBO expects that the provisions of the bill that would largely codify that existing guidance would not significantly affect the federal budget.”
Because the Government Accountability Office (GAO) would be required to report to Congress on the implementation of
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