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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2630 

To amend section 5707 of title 5, United States Code, to require the General 

Services Administration to make information regarding travel by the 

heads of Executive agencies and other individuals in senior positions 

publicly available. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 22, 2018 

Ms. DUCKWORTH introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend section 5707 of title 5, United States Code, to 

require the General Services Administration to make information regarding travel by the heads of Executive 

agencies and other individuals in senior positions publicly 

available. 

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 ‘‘Federal Travel Trans5 parency Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION REGARDING TRAV2 EL BY CERTAIN SENIOR OFFICIALS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5707 of title 5, United 

4 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

7 REGARDING TRAVEL BY CERTAIN SENIOR OFFICIALS.— 

8 ‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 

9 ‘‘(A) the term ‘Administrator’ means the 

10 Administrator of General Services; 

11 ‘‘(B) the term ‘covered individual’ means— 

12 ‘‘(i) the head of an Executive agency; 

13 or 

14 ‘‘(ii) an individual serving in a posi15 tion at level I or II of the Executive Sched16 ule under section 5312 or 5313, respec17 tively; 

18 ‘‘(C) the term ‘machine-readable form’ 

19 means a format in which information or data 

20 can be easily processed by a computer without 

21 human intervention while ensuring no semantic 

22 meaning is lost; 

23 ‘‘(D) the term ‘open format’ means a tech24 nical format based on an underlying open 

25 standard that is— 


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1 ‘‘(i) not encumbered by restrictions 

2 that would impede use or reuse; and 

3 ‘‘(ii) based on an underlying open 

4 standard that is maintained by a standards 

5 organization; and 

6 ‘‘(E) the term ‘travel information website’ 

7 means the website used by the Administrator to 

8 make available information under paragraph 

9 (2)(B)(i). 

10 ‘‘(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF TRAVEL INFOR11 MATION FOR COVERED INDIVIDUALS.— 

12 ‘‘(A) REPORTING.—Not later than 30 busi13 ness days after the end of each calendar quar14 ter, each Executive agency employing 1 or more 

15 covered individuals who performed official travel 

16 during the calendar quarter shall submit to the 

17 Administrator data in machine-readable form 

18 and open format regarding the travel by each 

19 such covered individual during the calendar 

20 quarter on a commercial aircraft, privately21 owned aircraft, or Government-owned or Gov22 ernment-leased aircraft, which shall include— 

23 ‘‘(i) the duration of the travel; 

24 ‘‘(ii) the destination or destinations of 

25 the travel; 


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1 ‘‘(iii) the individuals in the travel 

2 party; 

3 ‘‘(iv) the justification for the travel; 

4 ‘‘(v) the authorizing official who ap5 proved the travel; and 

6 ‘‘(vi) the total cost to the Government 

7 for— 

8 ‘‘(I) the travel as a whole; 

9 ‘‘(II) transportation during the 

10 travel; and 

11 ‘‘(III) lodging accommodations 

12 during the travel. 

13 ‘‘(B) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 

14 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator 

15 shall make available online to the public, at 

16 no cost to access, the information provided 

17 by Executive agencies to the Administrator 

18 under subparagraph (A). 

19 ‘‘(ii) NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMA20 TION.— 

21 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—An Executive 

22 agency may exclude national security 

23 sensitive travel information from the 

24 travel information submitted to the 

25 Administrator if the Executive agency 


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1 determines public online disclosure of 

2 the national security sensitive travel 

3 information would result in harm to 

4 national security interests. 

5 ‘‘(II) JUSTIFICATION.—Each Ex6 ecutive agency shall establish and pre7 serve an accurate record documenting 

8 each instance in which the Executive 

9 agency excluded national security sen10 sitive travel information from submis11 sion, as authorized in subclause (I), 

12 which shall include information ex13 plaining how public online disclosure 

14 of the national security sensitive trav15 el information would have resulted in 

16 harm to national security interests. 

17 ‘‘(C) USE OF EXISTING RESOURCES.—To 

18 the maximum extent practicable, the Adminis19 trator shall use a website in existence on the 

20 date of enactment of this subsection to carry 

21 out this subsection. 

22 ‘‘(3) REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 30 busi23 ness days after the date on which the Administrator 

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1 graph (2)(A), the Administrator shall make the in2 formation available on the travel information 

3 website. 

4 ‘‘(4) CLASSIFIED TRIPS.— 

5 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this sub6 section shall preclude an Executive agency from 

7 excluding from the information submitted to the 

8 Administrator information regarding classified 

9 travel. 

10 ‘‘(B) MAINTAINING OF INFORMATION.—An 

11 Executive agency shall maintain information re12 lating to classified travel by a covered employee 

13 until the end of the 2-year period beginning on 

14 the date on which the classified travel con15 cludes. 

16 ‘‘(5) AUDITING.—The Inspector General of 

17 each Executive agency may, as determined appro18 priate by the Inspector General— 

19 ‘‘(A) conduct and publish an audit of the 

20 accuracy and completeness of information the 

21 Executive agency provides to the Administrator 

22 under paragraph (2)(A); 

23 ‘‘(B) conduct an audit of determinations 

24 by the Executive agency to exclude information 

25 under paragraph (2)(B)(ii) to ensure each such 


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1 decision was appropriate and justified in regard 

2 to protecting national security interests from 

3 harm that would have resulted from public on4 line disclosure; and 

5 ‘‘(C) provide each committee of Congress 

6 with jurisdiction over the activities of or appro7 priations for the Executive agency with written 

8 notification if the Inspector General determines 

9 that the Executive agency is improperly with10 holding, or failed to justify the withholding of, 

11 information from the Administrator under para12 graph (2)(B)(ii).’’. 

13 (b) RELATION TO OTHER REPORTING REQUIRE14 MENTS.—Nothing in the amendment made by subsection 

15 (a) shall be construed to modify or supercede the reporting 

16 requirements under the Federal Travel Regulation (in17 cluding the requirements relating to the Senior Federal 

18 Travel report, or any successor thereto) or under any 

19 other provision of law. 

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