SEC. 803. AVAILABILITY ON THE INTERNET OF FINANCIAL 
DISCLOSURE REPORTS OF JUDICIAL OFFI-
CERS. 
Section 103 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App. 103), as amended by this Act, is further 
amended by inserting at the end the following: 
‘‘(n) The Judicial Conference shall make available 
any report filed with it under this title by a judicial officer 
within 48 hours of the applicable submission deadline on 
the website of the Judicial Conference in a searchable, 
sortable, downloadable, machine-readable format.’’. 
SEC. 804. GAO AUDIT OF PACER. 
Not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct an audit of the public access to court 
electronic records system maintained by the Administra-
tive Office of the United States Courts, and shall submit 
to Congress, the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts, and any other appropriate Federal agency 
or office, a report that contains the results of the audit, 
along with any recommendations for improving the public 
access to court electronic records system. 
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TITLE IX—ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 901. AUDITS BY THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 
OFFICE. 
(a) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral shall conduct annual audits of the implementation of 
the provisions in this Act, and shall submit annually to 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate a report on the results of the audits. 
(b) MATTERS COVERED BY AUDITS.—Audits con-
ducted under this section shall address whether the con-
gressional and executive branch data that is required to 
be provided to the public through the Internet is each of 
the following: 
(1) COMPLETE.—Made available, except for 
data that is subject to privacy, security, or privilege 
exemptions. 
(2) PRIMARY.—Collected at the source, with the 
highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate 
or modified forms. 
(3) TIMELY.—Made available as quickly as nec-
essary to preserve the value of the data. 
(4) ACCESSIBLE.—Available to the widest range 
of users for the widest range of purposes. 
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(5) 
MACHINE
PROCESSABLE.—Reasonably 
structured to allow automated processing. 
(6) NON-DISCRIMINATORY.—Available to any-
one, with no registration requirement. 
(7) NON-PROPRIETARY.—Available in a format 
over which no entity has exclusive control. 
(8) LICENSE-FREE.—Not subject to any copy-
right, patent, trademark, or trade secret regulation 
(with reasonable privacy, security, and privilege re-
strictions). 
(c) CURRENT STANDARDS.—Audits conducted under 
this section shall also address whether the data provided 
to the public under this Act is produced and maintained 
using current standards for data publication. 
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