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[S. 188 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.188

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 An Act


 
 To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the use of Federal 
 funds for the costs of painting portraits of officers and employees of 
             the Federal Government, 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 ``Eliminating Government-funded Oil-
painting Act'' or the ``EGO Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PORTRAITS.
    (a) In General.--Subchapter III of chapter 13 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1355. Prohibition on use of funds for portraits
    ``(a) No funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the 
Federal Government may be used to pay for the painting of a portrait of 
an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the 
President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, the head of an 
executive agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
    ``(b) In this section--
        ``(1) the term `executive agency' has the meaning given the 
    term in section 133 of title 41; and
        ``(2) the term `Member of Congress' includes a Delegate or 
    Resident Commissioner to Congress.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for subchapter III 
of chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
after the item relating to section 1354 the following new item:

``1355. Prohibition on use of funds for portraits.''.


                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.