[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1938 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1938

To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to increase transparency of 
            the Inspectors General, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 22, 2015

 Mr. Kind (for himself, Mr. Ribble, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Pocan, 
 Ms. Moore, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Grothman, and Mr. Duffy) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
                         and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to increase transparency of 
            the Inspectors General, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Inspectors General Transparency Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. DUTY TO SUBMIT AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC WORK PRODUCT.

    Section 4 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) Whenever an Inspector General, in carrying out the duties 
and responsibilities established under this Act, issues a work product 
the Inspector General shall--
            ``(A) submit the work product to--
                    ``(i) the head of each establishment reviewed in 
                the work product;
                    ``(ii) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs and the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the Senate;
                    ``(iii) the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                Reform and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
                of Representatives;
                    ``(iv) the congressional committees of 
                jurisdiction;
                    ``(v) if the work product was initiated upon 
                request by an individual or entity other than the 
                Inspector General, that individual or entity; and
                    ``(vi) any Member of Congress upon request; and
            ``(B) not later than 3 days after the work product is 
        submitted in final form to the head of the establishment, post 
        the work product on the website of the Office of Inspector 
        General.
    ``(2) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize 
the public disclosure of information that is specifically prohibited 
from disclosure by any other provision of law.''.
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