[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3548 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3548

 To increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing 
                        any proposed conference.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2015

 Mr. Kind (for himself and Mr. Paulsen) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing 
                        any proposed conference.

    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 ``Transparency Requirements for Agency 
Conferences and Events Act'' or the ``TRACE Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS ON CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days before any conference, the 
head of the agency hosting the conference and the head of any agency 
that is sending an employee of such agency to the conference shall 
submit to the relevant congressional committee of jurisdiction a report 
on the following:
            (1) An itemized statement of the cost of attending the 
        conference, including the total cost.
            (2) In the case of the agency hosting the conference, the 
        total cost of the conference.
            (3) The names of keynote speakers.
            (4) A list of conference attendees from such agency and the 
        titles of such attendees.
            (5) The location of the conference.
            (6) A summary of the purposes and goals of the conference.
            (7) A conference itinerary.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Conference.--The term ``conference'' means a meeting, 
        retreat, seminar, symposium, training, or other event that 
        involves travel for 50 or more attendees.
            (3) Employee.--The term ``employee'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 2105 of title 5, United States Code.
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