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105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4805
To require reports on travel of Executive branch officers and employees
to international conferences, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 11, 1998
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To require reports on travel of Executive branch officers
and employees to international conferences, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPORTS ON TRAVEL OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
(a) REPORTS TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE.—(1) Ex-
cept as provided in paragraph (2), each officer and em-
ployee of an Executive Branch agency who travels abroad
to attend an international conference shall submit to the
Director of the Office of International Conferences of the
Department of State a report with respect to such travel
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under subsection (b) not later than 30 days after the com-
pletion of such travel.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of travel
by the following:
(A) The President.
(B) The Vice President.
(C) Any officer or employee who is—
(i) carrying out an intelligence or intel-
ligence-related activity;
(ii) performing a protective function; or
(iii) engaged in a sensitive diplomatic mis-
sion.
(b) REPORT.—Each report under subsection (a) shall
set forth the following:
(1) The name and agency of the officer or em-
ployee concerned.
(2) The duration and cost of the travel in-
volved.
(3) The name of the official who authorized the
travel.
(c) BIANNUAL REPORTS
TO CONGRESS.—(1) Not
later than April 1, 1999, and every six months thereafter,
the Director shall submit to the Committees on Foreign
Relations and Appropriations of the Senate and the Com-
mittees on International Relations and Appropriations of
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the House of Representatives a report regarding the travel
covered by the reports submitted to the Director under
subsection (a) during the six-month period ending on the
date of the report under this paragraph.
(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall set forth
with respect to the period covered by such report the fol-
lowing:
(A) The names and agencies of the officers and
employees who traveled abroad to attend an inter-
national conference during such period.
(B) Each official who authorized the travel cov-
ered by subparagraph (A) and the total number of
officers and employees whose travel was authorized
by such official.
(C) The total cost of the travel covered by sub-
paragraph (A).
(d) ANNUAL REPORTS
TO CONGRESS.—Not later
than six months after the date of enactment of this Act,
and annually thereafter, the President shall submit to the
committees referred to in subsection (c) a report setting
forth—
(1) the total expenditures by the Federal Gov-
ernment on all official travel abroad by each Execu-
tive Branch agency during the preceding fiscal year;
and
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(2) the total number of officials, officers, and
employees of each such agency who engaged in such
travel during that fiscal year.
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘Executive Branch agency’’ has
the meaning given the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in
section 105 of title 5, United States Code, except
that the term also includes the Executive Office of
the President but does not include the General Ac-
counting Office.
(2) The term ‘‘international conference’’ means
any meeting held under the auspices of an inter-
national organization or foreign government at
which representatives of more than two foreign gov-
ernments are expected to be in attendance and to
which one or more Executive Branch agencies will
send an aggregate of 10 or more representatives.
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