Access to White House Visitor Logs Act

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:  <p><strong>Access to White House Visitor Logs Act</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the President to establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains records of</p> <ul> <li>the name of each visitor at the White House, the residence of the Vice President, or any other location at which the President or Vice President regularly conducts official business;</li> <li>the name of each individual with whom the visitor met; and</li> <li>the purpose of the visit.</li> </ul> <p>The President shall not include in the database any such record (1) the posting of which would implicate personal privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten national security, or (2) relating to a purely personal guest. </p> <p>For a particularly sensitive meeting, the President shall (1) include in the database the number of visitors, and (2) post the applicable records in the database when their release is no longer sensitive. </p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1652 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1652

      To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2023

 Mr. Quigley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.

    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 ``Access to White House Visitor Logs 
Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFLUENTIAL VISITOR ACCESS RECORDS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered location.--The term ``covered location'' 
        means--
                    (A) the White House;
                    (B) the residence of the Vice President; and
                    (C) any other location at which the President or 
                the Vice President regularly conducts official 
                business.
            (2) Covered records.--The term ``covered records'' means 
        information relating to a visit at a covered location, which 
        shall include--
                    (A) the name of each visitor at the covered 
                location;
                    (B) the name of each individual with whom each 
                visitor described in subparagraph (A) met at the 
                covered location; and
                    (C) the purpose of the visit.
    (b) Requirement.--Except as provided in subsection (c), not later 
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President 
shall establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available 
database that contains covered records for the preceding 30-day period.
    (c) Exceptions.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall not include in the 
        database established under subsection (b) any covered record--
                    (A) the posting of which would implicate personal 
                privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten 
                national security; or
                    (B) relating to a purely personal guest at a 
                covered location.
            (2) Sensitive meetings.--With respect to a particularly 
        sensitive meeting at a covered location, the President shall--
                    (A) include the number of visitors at the covered 
                location in the database established under subsection 
                (b); and
                    (B) post the applicable covered records in the 
                database established under subsection (b) when the 
                President determines that release of the covered 
                records is no longer sensitive.
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