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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7580 
To require the White House to maintain a publicly accessible website that 
includes a visitor’s log and salary and financial disclosure information 
for White House employees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2020 
Mr. CICILLINE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To require the White House to maintain a publicly accessible 
website that includes a visitor’s log and salary and finan-
cial disclosure information for White House employees, 
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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘White House Open 
Data Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG AND EMPLOYEE INFOR-
MATION. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO PUBLISH.—Except as pro-
vided in subsection (b), not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Executive Office 
of the President shall make available on a publicly avail-
able website in an easily searchable and downloadable for-
mat the following information: 
(1) Visitor records for any location where the 
President or Vice President regularly conducts offi-
cial business, which shall— 
(A) include the name of each visitor, the 
name of each individual with whom the visitor 
met, and the purpose of the visit; and 
(B) shall be updated every 30 days. 
(2) The annual salary of each White House em-
ployee, which shall be updated quarterly. 
(3) The most recent financial disclosure state-
ment for each White House employee filed pursuant 
to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.), which shall be updated annually. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Except as provided in subsection 
(c)(3), the requirement described in subsection (a) does 
not apply to any visitor record that relates to— 
(1) the social security number, taxpayer identi-
fication number, birth date, home address, or per-
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sonal phone number of an individual, the name of an 
individual who is less than 18 years old, or a finan-
cial account number; 
(2) a law enforcement concern; 
(3) a national security threat; 
(4) the personal safety of an employee of the 
Executive Office of the President; or 
(5) personal visits that do not involve any offi-
cial or political business. 
(c) RECORDS WITHHELD.—With respect to a visitor 
record excepted under subsection (b), the Executive Office 
of the President shall— 
(1) disclose the number of records withheld 
every 30 days; 
(2) post any such excepted record on the 
website described under subsection (a) if the Execu-
tive Office of the President determines that the 
record is no longer subject to an exception described 
in subsection (b); and 
(3) notwithstanding subsection (b), post any 
reasonably segregable portion that is not covered by 
an exception described in subsection (b) of any such 
excepted record on the website described under sub-
section (a). 
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