[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 953 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 953

To require the United States Secret Service to make certain White House 
     visitor logs available to the public, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2017

 Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the United States Secret Service to make certain White House 
     visitor logs available to the public, 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 ``White House Visitor Logs 
Transparency Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS.

    Section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h)(1) Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5 and except as 
provided in paragraph (2), the following records created or maintained 
by the United States Secret Service in carrying out the authority 
granted under this section and section 3056A shall be made available to 
the public upon request:
            ``(A) The name of each covered visitor to the White House.
            ``(B) The date and time each covered visitor entered and 
        left the White House.
            ``(C) The name of each individual in the White House, 
        including the President if applicable, with whom each covered 
        visitor met.
    ``(2) The following records created or maintained by the United 
States Secret Service shall not be disclosed to the public under 
paragraph (1) or under section 552 of title 5:
            ``(A) Information relating to an individual whose visit to 
        the White House was as a guest of the President or his family 
        and entirely personal in nature.
            ``(B) Information that, if disclosed to the public, would 
        cause a threat to national security interests.
            ``(C) Time-sensitive information concerning particularly 
        sensitive meetings.
    ``(3) If a request for disclosure of information is made under this 
subsection and the Director of the United States Secret Service 
determines the requested information is prohibited from being disclosed 
under paragraph (2), the Director of the United States Secret Service 
shall make available to the public the reason for such determination.
    ``(4) Not later than 30 days after the date on which a request for 
disclosure is made under this subsection, the Director of the United 
States Secret Service shall--
            ``(A) make the requested information available; or
            ``(B) in the case of a determination described in paragraph 
        (3), make the reason for such determination available.
    ``(5) In this subsection, the term `covered visitor' means an 
individual who--
            ``(A) visits the White House for the purpose of conducting 
        business; and
            ``(B) during the visit described in subparagraph (A) meets 
        with the President or an employee of the Executive Office of 
        the President.''.
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