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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1736 
To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2019 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. MOULTON, 
Ms. NORTON, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Mr. POCAN, Ms. CLARKE of New 
York, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. CASTEN of Illinois, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. 
LEE of California, Mr. COHEN, Mr. SOTO, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. LUJA´N, Mrs. 
DEMINGS, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. CLAY, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. 
SIRES, and Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form 
A BILL 
To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records. 
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 ‘‘Making Access Records 
Available to Lead American Government Openness Act’’ 
or the ‘‘MAR-A-LAGO Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFLUENTIAL VISITOR AC-
CESS 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 Presi-
dent 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 sub-
section (c), not later than 30 days after the date of enact-
ment 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.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall not in-
clude 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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