[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2735 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2735

To amend section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, to require that 
   the annual budget submissions of the Presidents include the total 
   dollar amount requested for intelligence or intelligence-related 
     activities of each element of the Government engaged in such 
                              activities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2019

Mr. Welch (for himself and Mr. Sensenbrenner) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, to require that 
   the annual budget submissions of the Presidents include the total 
   dollar amount requested for intelligence or intelligence-related 
     activities of each element of the Government engaged in such 
                              activities.

    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 ``Intelligence Budget Transparency Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES OF EACH ELEMENT OF THE 
              GOVERNMENT.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(40)(A) the total dollar amount proposed in the budget 
        for intelligence or intelligence-related activities of each 
        element of the Government engaged in such activities in the 
        fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the estimated 
        appropriation required for each of the ensuing four fiscal 
        years; and
            ``(B) as used in subparagraph (A), the term `element of the 
        Government' refers to each element of the intelligence 
        community as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security 
        Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).''.
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