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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1652
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 17, 2023
Mr. Quigley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability
A BILL
To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Access to White House Visitor Logs Act
.
Improving access to influential visitor access records
Definitions
In this section:
Covered location
The term covered location
means—
the White House;
the residence of the Vice President; and
any other location at which the President or the Vice President regularly conducts official business.
Covered records
The term covered records
means information relating to a visit at a covered location, which shall include—
the name of each visitor at the covered location;
the name of each individual with whom each visitor described in subparagraph (A) met at the covered location; and
the purpose of the visit.
Requirement
Except as provided in subsection (c), not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains covered records for the preceding 30-day period.
Exceptions
In general
The President shall not include in the database established under subsection (b) any covered record—
the posting of which would implicate personal privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten national security; or
relating to a purely personal guest at a covered location.
Sensitive meetings
With respect to a particularly sensitive meeting at a covered location, the President shall—
include the number of visitors at the covered location in the database established under subsection (b); and
post the applicable covered records in the database established under subsection (b) when the President determines that release of the covered records is no longer sensitive.
