Title: MAR-A-LAGO Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act or the MAR-A-LAGO Act
This bill directs the President to establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains records of
The President shall not include in the database any such record (1) the posting of which would implicate personal privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten national security, or (2) relating to a purely personal guest at a covered location.
For a particularly sensitive meeting, the President shall (1) include in the database the number of visitors at the covered location, and (2) post the applicable records in the database when their release is no longer sensitive.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1736 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1736

      To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2019

Mr. Quigley (for himself, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Foster, Mr. Moulton, Ms. 
  Norton, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. 
Raskin, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, 
   Mr. Casten of Illinois, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
 Cohen, Mr. Soto, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Lujan, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Higgins of 
 New York, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Clay, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Price of 
  North Carolina, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Sires, and Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.

    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 ``Making Access Records Available to 
Lead American Government Openness Act'' or the ``MAR-A-LAGO Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFLUENTIAL VISITOR ACCESS RECORDS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered location.--The term ``covered location'' 
        means--
                    (A) the White House;
                    (B) the residence of the Vice President; and
                    (C) any other location at which the President or 
                the Vice President regularly conducts official 
                business.
            (2) Covered records.--The term ``covered records'' means 
        information relating to a visit at a covered location, which 
        shall include--
                    (A) the name of each visitor at the covered 
                location;
                    (B) the name of each individual with whom each 
                visitor described in subparagraph (A) met at the 
                covered location; and
                    (C) the purpose of the visit.
    (b) Requirement.--Except as provided in subsection (c), not later 
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President 
shall establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available 
database that contains covered records for the preceding 30-day period.
    (c) Exceptions.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall not include in the 
        database established under subsection (b) any covered record--
                    (A) the posting of which would implicate personal 
                privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten 
                national security; or
                    (B) relating to a purely personal guest at a 
                covered location.
            (2) Sensitive meetings.--With respect to a particularly 
        sensitive meeting at a covered location, the President shall--
                    (A) include the number of visitors at the covered 
                location in the database established under subsection 
                (b); and
                    (B) post the applicable covered records in the 
                database established under subsection (b) when the 
                President determines that release of the covered 
                records is no longer sensitive.
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