[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4805 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4805

To require reports on travel of Executive branch officers and employees 
         to international conferences, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 1998

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
          referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To require reports on travel of Executive branch officers and employees 
         to international conferences, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPORTS ON TRAVEL OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICERS AND 
              EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Reports to Department of State.--(1) Except as provided in 
paragraph (2), each officer and employee of an Executive Branch agency 
who travels abroad to attend an international conference shall submit 
to the Director of the Office of International Conferences of the 
Department of State a report with respect to such travel under 
subsection (b) not later than 30 days after the completion of such 
travel.
    (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of travel by the 
following:
            (A) The President.
            (B) The Vice President.
            (C) Any officer or employee who is--
                    (i) carrying out an intelligence or intelligence-
                related activity;
                    (ii) performing a protective function; or
                    (iii) engaged in a sensitive diplomatic mission.
    (b) Report.--Each report under subsection (a) shall set forth the 
following:
            (1) The name and agency of the officer or employee 
        concerned.
            (2) The duration and cost of the travel involved.
            (3) The name of the official who authorized the travel.
    (c) Biannual Reports to Congress.--(1) Not later than April 1, 
1999, and every six months thereafter, the Director shall submit to the 
Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations of the Senate and 
the Committees on International Relations and Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives a report regarding the travel covered by the 
reports submitted to the Director under subsection (a) during the six-
month period ending on the date of the report under this paragraph.
    (2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall set forth with respect to 
the period covered by such report the following:
            (A) The names and agencies of the officers and employees 
        who traveled abroad to attend an international conference 
        during such period.
            (B) Each official who authorized the travel covered by 
        subparagraph (A) and the total number of officers and employees 
        whose travel was authorized by such official.
            (C) The total cost of the travel covered by subparagraph 
        (A).
    (d) Annual Reports to Congress.--Not later than six months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
President shall submit to the committees referred to in subsection (c) 
a report setting forth--
            (1) the total expenditures by the Federal Government on all 
        official travel abroad by each Executive Branch agency during 
        the preceding fiscal year; and
            (2) the total number of officials, officers, and employees 
        of each such agency who engaged in such travel during that 
        fiscal year.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``Executive Branch agency'' has the meaning 
        given the term ``Executive agency'' in section 105 of title 5, 
        United States Code, except that the term also includes the 
        Executive Office of the President but does not include the 
        General Accounting Office.
            (2) The term ``international conference'' means any meeting 
        held under the auspices of an international organization or 
        foreign government at which representatives of more than two 
        foreign governments are expected to be in attendance and to 
        which one or more Executive Branch agencies will send an 
        aggregate of 10 or more representatives.
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