Title: FLY Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Formally List Your Travel Act or the FLY Act
This bill requires federal agencies to submit to the Government Accountability Office monthly travel logs that include any official travel itinerary of the agency head for the previous month. The bill also (1) establishes penalties for agencies that fail to submit travel logs to the GAO, (2) requires agencies to report annually to Congress regarding official travel expenses incurred by the agency head, and (3) prohibits an agency head that holds a Senate-confirmed position from using federal funds to purchase a first class seat on an airplane.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6061 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6061

    To require the head of each agency to submit to the Government 
  Accountability Office a monthly travel log, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2018

  Mr. Norman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the head of each agency to submit to the Government 
  Accountability Office a monthly travel log, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Formally List Your Travel Act'' or 
the ``FLY Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO SUBMIT MONTHLY TRAVEL LOGS.

    (a) In General.--Beginning October 1, 2018, on the first day of 
each month, an agency head shall submit to the Comptroller General of 
the United States a record of any official travel itinerary (referred 
to in this section as a ``travel log'') of the agency head for the 
previous month.
    (b) Penalty.--(1) Beginning with the fiscal quarter beginning on 
January 1, 2019, an agency head shall, out of funds appropriated 
specifically for the office of the agency head, pay to the general fund 
of the Treasury an amount equal to one percent of the annual budget of 
such office for each month during the previous quarter with respect to 
which the agency head has not submitted a travel log by the last day of 
such previous quarter.
    (2) Beginning with fiscal year 2020, in the case of an agency head 
who has not submitted any travel log during the previous fiscal year, 
the annual budget for the office of such agency head for the fiscal 
year shall be reduced by 15 percent.
    (c) Annual Report.--Not later than September 30 of each fiscal 
year, an agency head shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate a report on the total amount of official travel expenses 
incurred by the agency head during such fiscal year.
    (d) Prohibition.--Any agency head who holds a Senate-confirmed 
position may not purchase a first class seat on an airplane using 
Federal funds.
    (e) Agency Defined.--In this section, the term ``agency'' has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
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