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ministration and maintenance of the system to 
the State. 
(b) PUBLIC
ACCESS
TO
COURT
ELECTRONIC 
RECORDS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of the Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts, in coordination with the Administrator of 
General Services, shall update the Public Access to 
Court Electronic Records system, which shall be 
subject to the following requirements: 
(A) A document filed with a court shall be 
made publicly accessible upon filing, except as 
ordered by a court or by rule of the Judicial 
Conference. 
(B) All documents on the system shall be 
available to the public and to parties before the 
court free of charge. 
(C) Any information that is prohibited 
from public disclosure by law or court order 
shall be redacted. 
(D) All documents shall be text-searchable 
and machine-readable. 
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(E) To the extent practicable, external 
websites shall be able to link to documents on 
the system. 
(F) The system shall include digital audio 
and visual files of court recordings, when such 
files are available. 
(G) The system shall provide search func-
tions for public use. 
(2) MINIMIZING THE BURDEN ON PRO SE LITI-
GANTS.—In developing the system to comply with 
the requirements under paragraph (1), the Director 
shall, to the extent practicable, not impose a dis-
proportionate impact on pro se litigants. 
(3) USE OF TECHNOLOGY.—In developing the 
system under paragraph (1), the Director shall use 
modern technology in order— 
(A) to improve security, data accessibility, 
affordability, and performance; and 
(B) to minimize the burden on pro se liti-
gants. 
(4) AUTHORITY
TO
EXEMPT
CERTAIN
DOCU-
MENTS.—The Director may identify categories of 
documents which are not made publicly accessible 
under subsection (a)(1), and categories of court pro-
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ceedings, the recordings of which are not made avail-
able under paragraph (1)(F). 
(c) DEFINITION OF MACHINE-READABLE.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘machine-readable’’ means a format in 
which information or data can be easily processed by a 
computer without human intervention while ensuring no 
semantic meaning is lost. 
TITLE IX—ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 901. REPORT BY THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 
OFFICE. 
(a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct an annual audit of the activities of 
agencies in the legislative and executive branch to deter-
mine, with respect to in the year prior to the study— 
(1) whether data required by law to be provided 
to the public through the Internet by an agency in 
the legislative or executive branch of the Federal 
Government was— 
(A) made available in accordance with the 
law, except for data that is subject to privacy, 
security, or privilege exemptions; 
(B) collected at the source, with the high-
est possible level of granularity, not in aggre-
gate or modified forms; 
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(C) made available as quickly as necessary 
to preserve the value of the data; 
(D) available to the widest range of users 
for the widest range of purposes; 
(E) reasonably structured to allow auto-
mated processing; 
(F) available to anyone, with no registra-
tion requirement; 
(G) available in a format over which no 
person has exclusive control; and 
(H) subject to any copyright, patent, 
trademark, or trade secret protections (with 
reasonable privacy, security, and privilege re-
strictions); and 
(2) determine whether the data provided to the 
public under this Act is produced and maintained 
using any standard for data publication required by 
a law, regulation, executive order, or policy of the 
Federal Government, including any such standard 
established by the National Technology Transfer and 
Advancement Act of 1995 (Public law 104–113), the 
DATA Act (Public Law 101–113), or OMB Circular 
A–119. 
(b) REPORT.—The Comptroller General shall submit 
a report on the results of each audit required by sub-
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section (a) to the Committee on Oversight and Account-
ability of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
TITLE X—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 1001. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN RECORDS TO ARCHIVIST 
OF UNITED STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), not 
later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Attorney General of the United States shall trans-
fer to the Archivist of the United States each record— 
(1) created during the period beginning on Jan-
uary 1, 1981, and ending December 31, 1986; and 
(2) subject to Item 7 of Records Schedule N1– 
60–10–31 of the National Archives and Records Ad-
ministration. 
(b) RETENTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney 
General of the United States may submit to the Ar-
chivist of the United States a written request to re-
tain any record described in subsection (a), in ac-
cordance with section 1235.14 of title 36, Code of 
Federal Regulations. The Archivist shall approve or 
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