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for the denial or partial denial or any decision to 
withhold a responsive record under subsection (b).’’. 
(c) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.—Sub-
section (i) of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(i) The Government Accountability Office shall— 
‘‘(1) conduct audits of administrative agencies 
on compliance with and implementation of the re-
quirements of this section and issue reports detailing 
the results of such audits; 
‘‘(2) catalog the number of exemptions under 
subsection (b)(3) and agency use of such exemp-
tions; and 
‘‘(3) review and prepare a report on the proc-
essing of requests by agencies for information per-
taining to an entity that has received assistance 
under title I of the Emergency Economic Stabiliza-
tion Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) during 
any period in which the Government owns or owned 
more than 50 percent of the stock of such entity.’’. 
(d) ANNUAL REPORT BY CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH 
SERVICE.—Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(n) The Congressional Research Service shall, on an 
annual basis, provide the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate with a list of statutes described in 
subsection (b)(3). Each such list shall be made publicly 
available.’’. 
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.’’. 
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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. 
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 
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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. 
SEC. 805. ELECTRONIC COURT RECORDS REFORM. 
(a) CONSOLIDATION OF THE CASE MANAGEMENT/ 
ELECTRONIC CASE FILES SYSTEM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of the Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts, in coordination with the Administrator of 
General Services, shall consolidate the Case Manage-
ment/Electronic Case Files system, and shall develop 
one system for all filings with courts of the United 
States, which shall be administered by the Adminis-
trative Office of the United States Courts. 
(2) USE OF TECHNOLOGY.—In developing the 
system under paragraph (1), the Director shall use 
modern technology in order— 
(A) to improve security, data accessibility, 
affordability, and performance; and 
(B) to minimize the burden on pro se liti-
gants. 
(3) AVAILABILITY TO STATES.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—A State may choose to 
participate in the system developed under this 
subsection. 
(B) FEE.—The Director shall charge a fee 
to a State that chooses to participate in the sys-
tem, which is set at a level to recover the cost 
of providing the services associated with the ad-
ministration and maintenance of the system to 
the State. 
(b) PUBLIC
ACCESS
TO
COURT
ELECTRONIC 
RECORDS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of the Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts, in coordination with the Administrator of 
General Services, shall update the Public Access to 
Court Electronic Records system, which shall be 
subject to the following requirements: 
(A) A document filed with a court shall be 
made publicly accessible upon filing, except as 
ordered by a court or by rule of the Judicial 
Conference. 
(B) All documents on the system shall be 
available to the public and to parties before the 
court free of charge. 
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(C) Any information that is prohibited 
from public disclosure by law or court order 
shall be redacted. 
(D) All documents shall be text-searchable 
and machine-readable. 
(E) To the extent practicable, external 
websites shall be able to link to documents on 
the system. 
(F) The system shall include digital audio 
and visual files of court recordings, when such 
files are available. 
(G) The system shall provide search func-
tions for public use. 
(2) MINIMIZING THE BURDEN ON PRO SE LITI-
GANTS.—In developing the system to comply with 
the requirements under paragraph (1), the Director 
shall, to the extent practicable, not impose a dis-
proportionate impact on pro se litigants. 
(3) USE OF TECHNOLOGY.—In developing the 
system under paragraph (1), the Director shall use 
modern technology in order— 
(A) to improve security, data accessibility, 
affordability, and performance; and 
(B) to minimize the burden on pro se liti-
gants. 
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(4) AUTHORITY
TO
EXEMPT
CERTAIN
DOCU-
MENTS.—The Director may identify categories of 
documents which are not made publicly accessible 
under subsection (a)(1), and categories of court pro-
ceedings, the recordings of which are not made avail-
able under paragraph (1)(F). 
(c) DEFINITION OF MACHINE-READABLE.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘machine-readable’’ means a format in 
which information or data can be easily processed by a 
computer without human intervention while ensuring no 
semantic meaning is lost. 
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 
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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. 
(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 
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to the public under this Act is produced and maintained 
using current standards for data publication. 
TITLE X—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 1001. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN RECORDS TO ARCHIVIST 
OF UNITED STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), not 
later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Attorney General of the United States shall trans-
fer to the Archivist of the United States each record— 
(1) created during the period beginning on Jan-
uary 1, 1981, and ending December 31, 1986; and 
(2) subject to Item 7 of Records Schedule N1– 
60–10–31 of the National Archives and Records Ad-
ministration. 
(b) RETENTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney 
General of the United States may submit to the Ar-
chivist of the United States a written request to re-
tain any record described in subsection (a), in ac-
cordance with section 1235.14 of title 36, Code of 
Federal Regulations. The Archivist shall approve or 
deny each such request not later than 60 days after 
receiving the request. 
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(2) TRANSFER OF RECORDS AFTER DENIAL.— 
Not later than 30 days after the Archivist of the 
United States denies a request under paragraph (1), 
the Attorney General shall transfer to the Archivist 
each record for which the request for retention has 
been denied. 
(c) ENFORCEMENT.—If the Attorney General fails to 
comply with the requirements of this section, the Archivist 
of the United States may bring an action in the proper 
district court of the United States to enforce compliance 
with this section. 
SEC. 1002. DATA STANDARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title I of the Finan-
cial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5311 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 124. DATA STANDARDS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall, by rule, promulgate data standards for the informa-
tion reported to member agencies by financial entities 
under the jurisdiction of the member agency and the data 
collected from member agencies on behalf of the Council. 
‘‘(b) STANDARDIZATION.—Member agencies, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall imple-
ment regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury under subsection (a) to standardize the types 
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and formats of data reported to member agencies or col-
lected on behalf of the Council, as described under sub-
section (a). If a member agency fails to implement such 
regulations prior to the expiration of the 3-year period fol-
lowing the date of publication of final regulations, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Chair-
person, may implement such regulations with respect to 
the financial entities under the jurisdiction of the member 
agency. 
‘‘(c) DATA STANDARDS.— 
‘‘(1) COMMON
IDENTIFIERS
AND
DATA
FOR-
MATS.—The data standards promulgated under sub-
section (a) shall include— 
‘‘(A) common identifiers for information 
reported to member agencies or collected on be-
half of the Council, including a common legal 
entity identifier for all entities required to re-
port to member agencies; and 
‘‘(B) common data formats for information 
reported to member agencies or collected on be-
half of the Council. 
‘‘(2) DATA
STANDARD
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
data standards promulgated under subsection (a) 
shall, to the extent practicable— 
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‘‘(A) render information fully searchable 
and machine-readable; 
‘‘(B) be nonproprietary; 
‘‘(C) incorporate standards developed and 
maintained by voluntary consensus standards 
bodies; and 
‘‘(D) be consistent with and implement ap-
plicable accounting and reporting principles. 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—In promulgating data 
standards under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall consult with other Federal depart-
ments and agencies and multi-agency initiatives re-
sponsible for Federal data standards. 
‘‘(4) INTEROPERABILITY OF DATA.—In promul-
gating data standards under subsection (a), the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall seek to promote inter-
operability of financial regulatory data across mem-
bers of the Council.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
under section 1(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform 
and Consumer Protection Act is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 123 the following: 
‘‘Sec. 124. Data standards.’’. 
Æ 
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