Title: TRUMPED Act of 2017
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Taxpayers Require Urgent Mandatory Protection from Egregious Debt Act of 2017 or the TRUMPED Act of 2017
This bill allows state and local governments to recover their costs for providing protection to government officials and other individuals allowed Secret Service protection who travel to those jurisdictions for a period of more than 24 hours to visit real property in which such officials or individuals, or their spouses, have any ownership interest. The bill also grants a recovery right to any business that is significantly adversely affected by the provision of such protection.
The Secret Service shall report to the homeland security committees of Congress detailing the costs of protecting officials and individuals granted such protection since January 20, 2017.
The bill waives the sovereign immunity of the United States ito the extent required to enable the recovery of costs allowed by this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2610 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2610

  To require reimbursement from certain public officials whose travel 
results in unusual costs relating to protection of those officials, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2017

 Mr. Hastings introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require reimbursement from certain public officials whose travel 
results in unusual costs relating to protection of those officials, 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 ``Taxpayers Require Urgent Mandatory 
Protection from Egregious Debt Act of 2017'' or as the ``TRUMPED Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT REQUIRED.

    In the case of any person who the United States Secret Service is 
authorized to protect under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 3056(a) of 
title 18, United States Code, if that person travels to any real 
property in which that person or the spouse of that person has any 
ownership interest (including any licensing agreement) for any period 
of time longer than 24 hours--
            (1) each State or unit of local government wherein the real 
        property is located may recover, in a civil action against the 
        person accorded such protection, any costs incurred by such 
        State or unit of local government in connection with the 
        provision of such protection; and
            (2) if any business that is near that property is 
        significantly adversely affected by the provision of such 
        protection, that business may bring an action for appropriate 
        relief against the person accorded such protection.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the U.S. 
Secret Service shall submit a report to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate detailing the costs of 
protecting those granted protection under paragraph (1) or (2) of 
section 3056(a) of title 18, United States Code, since January 20, 
2017, for visits to real property lasting longer than 24 hours in which 
they or a spouse have an ownership interest.

SEC. 4. SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.

    The sovereign immunity of the United States is hereby waived to the 
extent required to enable recovery in an action under section 2.
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