Title: Special Counsel Reporting Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Special Counsel Reporting Act
This bill establishes reporting requirements with respect to a special counsel appointed under Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations.
Specifically, it establishes these requirements:
The reports must be made publicly available.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1357 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1357

To require a report of any Special Counsel who is removed from office, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2019

Mr. Doggett (for himself, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Bass, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. 
 Judy Chu of California, Mr. Connolly, Mr. DeFazio, Mrs. Demings, Mrs. 
   Dingell, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
   Lipinski, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Moore, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
   Pallone, Ms. Titus, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a report of any Special Counsel who is removed from office, 
                        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 ``Special Counsel Reporting Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT OF A SPECIAL COUNSEL WHO IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

    (a) Periodic Report of a Special Counsel to Congress.--A person 
serving as a Special Counsel appointed in accordance with part 600 of 
title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations shall submit a report on 
the status of the investigation that person was appointed to undertake, 
at such times and to the extent the Special Counsel determines 
appropriate, but no later than at the conclusion of the investigation, 
to--
            (1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives;
            (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (3) the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
            (4) the minority leader of the House of Representatives;
            (5) the majority leader of the Senate; and
            (6) the minority leader of the Senate.
    (b) Report of a Special Counsel Who Is Removed From Office.--If a 
person serving as a Special Counsel appointed in accordance with part 
600 of title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations is removed from such 
office, that person shall, not later than 2 weeks after the date of 
such removal, submit a report detailing the status, as of the date of 
dismissal, of the investigation that the person was appointed to 
undertake to--
            (1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives;
            (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (3) the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
            (4) the minority leader of the House of Representatives;
            (5) the majority leader of the Senate; and
            (6) the minority leader of the Senate.
    (c) Report of the Attorney General.--If a person is removed from 
service as a Special Counsel appointed in accordance with part 600 of 
title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the Attorney General or, 
if the Attorney General is recused, the next most senior official in 
the Department of Justice who is not also recused, shall, not later 
than 2 weeks after the date of such removal, submit a report detailing 
the status, as of the date of dismissal, of the investigation that the 
person was appointed to undertake to--
            (1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives;
            (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (3) the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
            (4) the minority leader of the House of Representatives;
            (5) the majority leader of the Senate; and
            (6) the minority leader of the Senate.
    (d) Material To Be Included.--Each report under this section shall 
include but not be limited to--
            (1) any evidence of criminal activity that implicates the 
        President, any person within the Executive Office of the 
        President at the time of the report or at any time prior, or 
        any person appointed as an officer of the United States by the 
        President (regardless of whether or not that person remained in 
        office as of the date of this report), including, 
        notwithstanding Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal 
        Procedure, grand jury information (as such term is defined in 
        section 3322(d) of title 18, United States Code);
            (2) such other facts or matters as the Special Counsel 
        determines appropriate, that the Special Counsel has become 
        aware of in the course of the investigation; and
            (3) include a summary of any conversation or action 
        regarding the jurisdiction and scope of the investigation--
                    (A) between the Special Counsel's office and any 
                officer or employee of the Department of Justice, the 
                President, or any person within the Executive Office of 
                the President; and
                    (B) between any officer or employee of the 
                Department of Justice and the Attorney General, the 
                President, or any person within the Executive Office of 
                the President.
    (e) Classified Information.--The reports required under this Act 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, and may include a classified 
annex if necessary.
    (f) Publication.--The unclassified form of a report under this Act 
shall be made available to the public on the date it is submitted to 
Congress.
    (g) Exemption.--No information to be included in the reports under 
subsections (a) and (b) may be withheld from Congress on the grounds 
that such information is classified or otherwise protected by a 
statutory, regulatory, or Congressional confidentiality provision. 
Disclosure of any information to Congress made pursuant to this bill, 
including classified information, does not constitute a violation of 
Federal law.
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