[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4716 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4716

 To require inspectors general to offer a briefing of the contents of 
 each semiannual report to the appropriate committees or subcommittees 
                  of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2022

  Mr. Murphy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require inspectors general to offer a briefing of the contents of 
 each semiannual report to the appropriate committees or subcommittees 
                  of Congress, 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 ``Secret Service Transparency and 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT OF 1978.

    The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended--
            (1) in section 5--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection 
                (g); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (e) the 
                following:
    ``(f) Each Inspector General shall offer a briefing of the contents 
of each semiannual report prepared under this section to the 
appropriate committees or subcommittees of Congress with jurisdiction 
over the Inspector General, or at the request of any Member, committee, 
or subcommittee of Congress.'';
            (2) in section 6(a)(1)(B), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by inserting ``including any provision of law that 
        restricts the release of records outside of a Federal agency,'' 
        after ``other provision of law,''; and
            (3) in section 8I(b), by inserting ``may not be delegated 
        and'' after ``paragraph (2)''.
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