[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2324 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2324

To require each Federal agency to include its address and phone number 
                       on any agency stationery.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2007

  Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. David Davis of 
 Tennessee, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Conaway) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require each Federal agency to include its address and phone number 
                       on any agency stationery.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Government Contact Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES TO INCLUDE ADDRESSES AND PHONE 
              NUMBERS ON AGENCY STATIONERY.

    (a) Requirement.--Each Federal agency shall include its address and 
phone number on any agency stationery. In the case of correspondence 
originating from a regional or local office of a Federal agency, the 
agency shall include the address and phone number of the regional or 
local office on the stationery.
    (b) Agency Definition.--In this Act, the term ``Federal agency'' 
has the meaning provided the term ``Executive agency'' by section 105 
of title 5, United States Code.
    (c) Exception for National Security.--Subsection (a) shall not 
apply in any case in which compliance with such subsection would not be 
in the national security interests of the United States, as determined 
by the head of the agency.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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