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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To require the United States Secret Service to make certain 

White House visitor logs available to the public, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘White House Visitor 

5 Logs Transparency Act of 2017’’. 

6 SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS. 

7 Section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, is 

8 amended by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(h)(1) Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5 and 

10 except as provided in paragraph (2), the following records 


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1 created or maintained by the United States Secret Service 

2 in carrying out the authority granted under this section 

3 and section 3056A shall be made available to the public 

4 upon request: 

5 ‘‘(A) The name of each covered visitor to the 

6 White House. 

7 ‘‘(B) The date and time each covered visitor en8 tered and left the White House. 

9 ‘‘(C) The name of each individual in the White 

10 House, including the President if applicable, with 

11 whom each covered visitor met. 

12 ‘‘(2) The following records created or maintained by 

13 the United States Secret Service shall not be disclosed to 

14 the public under paragraph (1) or under section 552 of 

15 title 5: 

16 ‘‘(A) Information relating to an individual 

17 whose visit to the White House was as a guest of 

18 the President or his family and entirely personal in 

19 nature. 

20 ‘‘(B) Information that, if disclosed to the pub21 lic, would cause a threat to national security inter22 ests. 

23 ‘‘(C) Time-sensitive information concerning par24 ticularly sensitive meetings. 


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1 ‘‘(3) If a request for disclosure of information is 

2 made under this subsection and the Director of the United 

3 States Secret Service determines the requested informa4 tion is prohibited from being disclosed under paragraph 

5 (2), the Director of the United States Secret Service shall 

6 make available to the public the reason for such deter7 mination. 

8 ‘‘(4) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 

9 a request for disclosure is made under this subsection, the 

10 Director of the United States Secret Service shall— 

11 ‘‘(A) make the requested information available; 

12 or 

13 ‘‘(B) in the case of a determination described in 

14 paragraph (3), make the reason for such determina15 tion available. 

16 ‘‘(5) In this subsection, the term ‘covered visitor’ 

17 means an individual who— 

18 ‘‘(A) visits the White House for the purpose of 

19 conducting business; and 

20 ‘‘(B) during the visit described in subparagraph 

21 (A) meets with the President or an employee of the 

22 Executive Office of the President.’’. 

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