[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3743 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3743

To prohibit the Secretary of an executive department from maintaining a 
   private email server for conducting official Government business.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2015

  Mr. Cramer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of an executive department from maintaining a 
   private email server for conducting official Government business.

    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 ``Securing Every Relevant and Vital 
Electronic Record Act of 2015'' or the ``SERVER Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SECRETARY OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT FROM 
              MAINTAINING PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER.

    (a) Prohibition.--The Secretary of an executive department may not 
maintain a private email server for the purpose of conducting official 
Government business.
    (b) Compliance.--The Inspector General of each executive department 
shall ensure compliance with subsection (a).
    (c) Criminal Penalty.--Whoever violates subsection (a) shall be 
fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
three years, or both; and shall forfeit his or her office and be 
disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Executive department.--The term ``executive 
        department'' has the meaning provided in section 101 of title 
        5, United States Code.
            (2) Private email server and official government 
        business.--The terms ``private email server'' and ``official 
        Government business'' have the meanings provided in regulations 
        promulgated for purposes of this Act by the Archivist of the 
        United States.
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