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Bar on Using Past Marijuana Use Against Security Clearance or Federal Job Applicants
Bars federal agencies from denying security clearances or federal employment based on a person's past marijuana use. Agencies must also create a review process for denials made since 2008, letting affected individuals request reconsideration within 90 days.
- Population Scope Medium Directly affects current and former security clearance applicants and federal job seekers with marijuana use history — a substantial but well-defined subpopulation, estimated well below 25% of U.S. adults.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated by this provision.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth High Creates a new statutory prohibition — binding notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation — that eliminates an existing category of adverse determination authority across the entire executive branch, a substantive change to enforceable eligibility standards.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low Mandatory 'shall' language eliminates agency discretion to weigh past marijuana use; agencies must also establish review processes and complete reassessments within fixed deadlines, leaving no policy latitude.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium Every federal agency must stand up a publicly available review process within one year and conduct case-by-case adjudication of individual reconsideration requests within 90 days, imposing recurring administrative load government-wide.
- Temporal Commitment High The substantive prohibition has no expiry and persists indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal or modify it.
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Summary
The Cannabis Users' Restoration of Eligibility Act (CURE Act) bars federal agencies from using a person's past marijuana use against them when deciding whether to grant a security clearance or approve someone for federal employment. It also requires every federal agency to set up a process, within one year, to review past denials made since January 1, 2008, so affected people can ask for a second look at decisions based solely on marijuana use.
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Carve-outs, Exemptions, Eligibility Top 1
Bar on Using Past Marijuana Use Against Security Clearance or Federal Job Applicants
Bars federal agencies from denying security clearances or federal employment based on a person's past marijuana use. Agencies must also create a review process for denials made since 2008, letting affected individuals request reconsideration within 90 days.
- Population Scope Medium Directly affects current and former security clearance applicants and federal job seekers with marijuana use history — a substantial but well-defined subpopulation, estimated well below 25% of U.S. adults.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated by this provision.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth High Creates a new statutory prohibition — binding notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation — that eliminates an existing category of adverse determination authority across the entire executive branch, a substantive change to enforceable eligibility standards.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low Mandatory 'shall' language eliminates agency discretion to weigh past marijuana use; agencies must also establish review processes and complete reassessments within fixed deadlines, leaving no policy latitude.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium Every federal agency must stand up a publicly available review process within one year and conduct case-by-case adjudication of individual reconsideration requests within 90 days, imposing recurring administrative load government-wide.
- Temporal Commitment High The substantive prohibition has no expiry and persists indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal or modify it.
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