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 ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Inspector General Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle B of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting 
before section 812 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 811. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL. 
‘‘(a) PUBLICATION OF REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 30 
days after the date of the enactment of this section, 
the Inspector General of the Department shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees any re-
port finalized on and after such date that substan-
tiates— 
‘‘(A) a violation of paragraph (8) or (9) of 
section 2302(b) of title 5, United States Code, 
section 1034 of title 10, United States Code, or 
Presidential Personnel Directive-19; or 
‘‘(B) an allegation of misconduct, waste, 
fraud, abuse, or violation of policy within the 
Department involving a member of the Senior 
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Executive Service or politically appointed offi-
cial of the Department. 
‘‘(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Concurrent with the 
submission to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees of reports pursuant to paragraph (1), the 
Inspector General shall, consistent with privacy, 
civil rights, and civil liberties protections, pub-
lish on a publicly available website of the Inspec-
tor General each such report. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The requirement pursu-
ant to subparagraph (A) to publish reports does 
not apply if section (5)(e)(1) of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 applies to any such report. 
‘‘(3) REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Inspector General 
of the Department may not redact any portion 
of a report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The requirement under 
subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to 
the name or any other identifying information, 
including any contextual details not relevant to 
the audit, inspection, or evaluation at issue that 
may be used by other employees or officers of the 
Department to determine the identity of a whis-
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tleblower complainant, of a whistleblower com-
plainant who does not consent to the inclusion of 
such in a report of the Inspector General. 
‘‘(b) SEMIANNUAL REPORTING.—Beginning with the 
first semiannual report transmitted to the appropriate com-
mittees or subcommittees of the Congress pursuant to section 
5(b) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 that is transmitted 
after the date of the enactment of this section, each such 
report shall be accompanied by a list of ongoing audits, 
inspections, and evaluations of the Department, together 
with a narrative description relating to each such audit, 
inspection, or evaluation that identifies the scope of such 
audit, inspection, or evaluation, as the case may be, as well 
as the subject office, component, or directorate of the De-
partment. For each such ongoing audit, inspection, or eval-
uation such narrative description shall include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) Information relating to the source of each 
such audit, inspection, or evaluation. 
‘‘(2) Information regarding whether each such 
audit, inspection, or evaluation is being conducted 
independently, jointly, concurrently, or in some other 
manner. 
‘‘(3) In the event each such audit, inspection, or 
evaluation was initiated due to a referral, the date on 
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which the Inspector General notified the originator of 
a referral of the Inspector General’s intention to carry 
out such audit, inspection, or evaluation. 
‘‘(4) Information relating to the dates on 
which— 
‘‘(A) each such audit, inspection, or evalua-
tion was initiated; 
‘‘(B) a draft report relating to each such 
audit, inspection, or evaluation is scheduled to 
be submitted to the Secretary for review; and 
‘‘(C) a final report relating to each such 
audit, inspection, or evaluation is scheduled to 
be submitted to the appropriate congressional 
committees and published on the website of the 
Inspector General in accordance with para-
graphs (1) and (2), respectively, of subsection 
(a). 
‘‘(5) An explanation for— 
‘‘(A) any significant changes to the nar-
rative description of each such audit, inspection, 
or evaluation, including the identification of the 
subject office, component, or directorate of the 
Department; or 
‘‘(B) a delay of more than 30 days in the 
scheduled date for submitting to the Secretary a 
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draft report for review or publishing on the 
website of the Inspector General of the Depart-
ment the final report relating to each such audit, 
inspection, or evaluation. 
‘‘(6) Data regarding tips and complaints made 
to the Inspector General Hotline of the Department or 
otherwise referred to the Department, including— 
‘‘(A) the number and type of tips and com-
plaints regarding fraud, waste, abuse, corrup-
tion, financial crimes, civil rights and civil lib-
erty abuse, or other complaints regarding crimi-
nal or non-criminal activity associated with 
fraud, waste, or abuse; 
‘‘(B) actions taken by the Department to 
address or resolve each substantiated tip or com-
plaint; 
‘‘(C) the total amount of time it took the 
Department to so address or resolve each such 
substantiated tip or complaint; 
‘‘(D) the total number of tips and com-
plaints that are substantiated compared with the 
number of tips and complaints that are unsub-
stantiated; and 
‘‘(E) the percentage of audits, inspections, 
and evaluations that are initiated as a result of 
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tips and complaints made to the Inspector Gen-
eral Hotline. 
‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION
TO CONGRESS.—The Inspector 
General of the Department shall notify the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate if the head of an office or component 
of the Department does not provide in a timely manner 
to the Inspector General information or assistance that is 
requested by the Inspector General to conduct an audit, in-
spection, or evaluation. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘appro-
priate congressional committees’ means the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate, and any committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate, respectively, having legislative 
or oversight jurisdiction under the Rules of the House of 
Representatives or the Senate, respectively, over the matter 
concerned.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by amending the item relating to section 811 to 
read as follows: 
‘‘Sec. 811. Office of Inspector General.’’. 
(c) REPORTS.— 
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