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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1652 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH17, 2023 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. Q |
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| 9 | 9 | | UIGLEYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 10 | 10 | | Committee on Oversight and Accountability |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Access to White House 4 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Visitor Logs Act’’. 5 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SEC. 2. IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFLUENTIAL VISITOR AC-6 |
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| 19 | 19 | | CESS RECORDS. 7 |
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| 20 | 20 | | (a) D |
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| 21 | 21 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) C |
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| 23 | 23 | | OVERED LOCATION .—The term ‘‘covered 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | location’’ means— 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (A) the White House; 11 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (B) the residence of the Vice President; 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | and 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (C) any other location at which the Presi-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | dent or the Vice President regularly conducts 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | official business. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) C |
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| 35 | 35 | | OVERED RECORDS .—The term ‘‘covered 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | records’’ means information relating to a visit at a 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | covered location, which shall include— 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (A) the name of each visitor at the covered 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | location; 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (B) the name of each individual with whom 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | each visitor described in subparagraph (A) met 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | at the covered location; and 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (C) the purpose of the visit. 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (b) R |
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| 45 | 45 | | EQUIREMENT.—Except as provided in sub-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | section (c), not later than 30 days after the date of enact-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ment of this Act, the President shall establish and update, 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | covered records for the preceding 30-day period. 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (c) E |
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| 51 | 51 | | XCEPTIONS.— 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (1) I |
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| 53 | 53 | | N GENERAL.—The President shall not in-21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | clude in the database established under subsection 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (b) any covered record— 23 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (A) the posting of which would implicate 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | personal privacy or law enforcement concerns or 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | threaten national security; or 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (B) relating to a purely personal guest at 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | a covered location. 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) S |
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| 65 | 65 | | ENSITIVE MEETINGS.—With respect to a 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | particularly sensitive meeting at a covered location, 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the President shall— 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (A) include the number of visitors at the 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | covered location in the database established 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | under subsection (b); and 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (B) post the applicable covered records in 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | the database established under subsection (b) 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | when the President determines that release of 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | the covered records is no longer sensitive. 15 |
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