annual return required to be filed electronically under sec-
tion 6033(n) shall be made available by the Secretary to 
the public, in a nonproprietary machine-readable data for-
mat, in a database that is searchable, sortable, and 
downloadable.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 606. IMPROVING EASE OF ONLINE ACCESS TO REG-
ISTRATION INFORMATION FROM AGENTS OF 
FOREIGN PRINCIPALS. 
(a) IMPROVING ONLINE ACCESS.—Section 6(d)(1) of 
the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 
616(d)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘in a searchable, sort-
able, and downloadable manner’’ and inserting ‘‘in a for-
mat which is directly searchable, sortable, downloadable, 
and machine-readable’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect upon the expiration of the 
30-day period which begins on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 607. AGENCY DEFINED. 
In this title (except for section 608), the term ‘‘agen-
cy’’ has the meaning given that term under section 551 
of title 5, United States Code. 
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SEC. 608. GOVERNMENT-WIDE ENTITY IDENTIFIER. 
(a) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘Executive 
agency’’ under section 105 of title 5, United States Code. 
(b) REQUIREMENT FOR ALL AGENCIES TO USE A 
GOVERNMENT-WIDE
ENTITY
IDENTIFIER.—(1) Each 
agency shall, to the extent practicable, require all private 
sector entities from which it regularly collects reports, fil-
ings, forms, disclosures or other regularized information 
to obtain a unique entity identifier. 
(2) The unique entity identifier required under this 
section shall allow private sector entities to be identified 
uniquely across all Federal regulatory, procurement, as-
sistance, and other reporting regimes. 
(c) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION CATEGORIZED 
USING GOVERNMENT-WIDE ENTITY IDENTIFIER.—Each 
agency shall, to the extent practicable, publish all public 
regulatory, procurement, assistance, and other reported 
information categorized using the unique entity identifier 
required under this section. 
(d) GOVERNANCE.—The unique entity identifier re-
quired under this section shall be based on the global enti-
ty identifier issued by— 
(1) utilities endorsed by the Regulatory Over-
sight Committee, whose charter was set forth by the 
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of 
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the Group of Twenty and the Financial Stability 
Board; or 
(2) utilities endorsed or otherwise governed by 
the Global LEI Foundation so long as that Founda-
tion remains recognized by the Regulatory Oversight 
Committee or any successor global public oversight 
body. 
TITLE 
VII—STRENGTHENING 
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMA-
TION ACT 
SEC. 701. DIGITAL ACCESS TO COMPLETED RESPONSES TO 
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) DATABASE
OF
COMPLETED
FOIA
RE-
QUESTS.—Each agency shall make available all ma-
terials contained in the agency’s completed response 
to a request under section 552 of title 5, United 
States Code (in this section referred to as a ‘‘FOIA 
request’’) in a structured database or in a search-
able, sortable, downloadable, machine-readable data-
base within 2 months after the date the FOIA re-
quest was completed. 
(2) ELECTRONIC FORMAT.—All information is 
presumed to be available in an electronic format as 
described in paragraph (1) unless the agency dem-
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onstrates that excessive cost would place an undue 
burden on the agency. 
(b) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—All information included 
in the agency’s completed response to a FOIA request 
shall be made available to the public electronically and 
without cost through each agency’s website. 
SEC. 702. EXPLANATION REQUIRED FOR CREATION OF EX-
EMPTION IN THE FREEDOM OF INFORMA-
TION ACT. 
Section 552(b)(3)(B) of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting ‘‘with an explanation for the ex-
emption’’ after ‘‘specifically cites to this paragraph’’. 
SEC. 703. FOIAONLINE FOR AGENCIES. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the head of each agency shall use 
FOIAonline to log, track, and publish all requests received 
under section 552 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 704. AGENCY DEFINED. 
In this title, the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning 
given that term under section 551 of title 5, United States 
Code. 
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TITLE VIII—IMPROVING TRANS-
PARENCY WITHIN THE JUDI-
CIAL SYSTEM 
SEC. 801. TELEVISING SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 45 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings 
‘‘The Supreme Court shall permit television coverage 
of all open sessions of the Court unless the Court decides, 
by a vote of the majority of justices, that allowing such 
coverage in a particular case would constitute a violation 
of the due process rights of one or more of the parties 
before the Court.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The chapter analysis 
for chapter 45 of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings.’’. 
SEC. 802. AUDIO RECORDING OF SUPREME COURT PRO-
CEEDINGS. 
The Chief Justice of the United States shall ensure 
that the audio of an oral argument before the Supreme 
Court of the United States is recorded and is made pub-
licly available on the Internet website of the Supreme 
Court at the same time that it is recorded. 
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