Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Held a Vote on Congressman Onder's Shared Property Agency Collaboration and Engagement Act of 2025 (SPACE) Act
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Bob Onder's bill, H.R. 3424, the Shared Property Agency and Collaboration and Engagement Act of 2025 (SPACE) Act passed out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The SPACE Act requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to collaborate with tenants of federally leased spaces to identify and overcome concerns among the different federal agencies around shared-space arrangements.
This would:
· Facilitate the expanded use of space-sharing or collocating between different Federal Agencies that are located in the same general area.
· Identify how special-use spaces can be used to improve space-sharing or collocating
· Establish measurable objectives to quantify the success of shared-space arrangements among Federal agencies
Congressman Onder said, “This will ensure government efficiency and save taxpayers’ hard-earned money. When I came to D.C. I was shocked to learn that many federal buildings throughout our country are nowhere near full or are sitting empty. Agencies often fail to share space and have large vacancies, even though they are only blocks from each other.
The SPACE Act will require GSA to work with our Federal Agencies to address concerns about shared-space arrangements. In the long-term, this will save Americans money by consolidating the number of buildings our government owns, maintains, and pays for. Streamlining our government and saving taxpayer dollars are two of the major reasons I came to Washington, so I’m proud to champion this important reform.”
“Congressman Onder’s SPACE Act will help save taxpayer dollars by helping identify opportunities for federal agencies to increase the use of shared-space arrangements, building upon the public building reforms this committee continues to push for. I want to thank Dr. Onder for his leadership on this important bill that will help ensure the federal real estate portfolio is right-sized,” said Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves.