[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1287 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1287

  To require that any Executive order be published on the White House 
  website not less than 72 hours before the Executive order is signed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

  Mr. Krishnamoorthi (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Lee, Mr. 
 Raskin, Mr. Nadler, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Frankel of Florida, 
 Mr. Veasey, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. 
    DeLauro, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Correa, Mr. 
    Perlmutter, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mr. Serrano, Mr. 
Keating, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Price of 
 North Carolina, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Vela, Mr. Hastings, 
Mr. Cummings, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. O'Halleran, Ms. Plaskett, 
Mr. Lawson of Florida, Mr. Peters, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Brown of 
Maryland, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Panetta, Ms. 
Bonamici, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Evans, 
 Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Brownley of California, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Clay, Mr. 
    Neal, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. 
Hanabusa, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. 
Carson of Indiana, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, 
  Mr. McEachin, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Engel, Mr. Welch, Ms. Barragan, and 
 Mrs. Bustos) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require that any Executive order be published on the White House 
  website not less than 72 hours before the Executive order is signed.

    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 ``Executive Order Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. POSTING REQUIREMENT FOR EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

    Not less than 72 hours before signing any Executive order, the 
President shall publish the Executive order on the White House website.
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