Title: White House Open Data Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
White House Open Data Act
This bill requires the White House to maintain a publicly accessible website that includes a visitor's log and salary and financial disclosure information for White House employees.
Specifically, the Executive Office of the President shall make available on such website
The bill (1) lists exceptions to these requirements, including those involving a national security threat and personal visits that do not involve official or political business; and (2) requires specified disclosure of records that are withheld.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7580 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7580

 To require the White House to maintain a publicly accessible website 
   that includes a visitor's log and salary and financial disclosure 
     information for White House employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the White House to maintain a publicly accessible website 
   that includes a visitor's log and salary and financial disclosure 
     information for White House employees, 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 ``White House Open Data Act''.

SEC. 2. WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOG AND EMPLOYEE INFORMATION.

    (a) Requirement To Publish.--Except as provided in subsection (b), 
not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Executive Office of the President shall make available on a publicly 
available website in an easily searchable and downloadable format the 
following information:
            (1) Visitor records for any location where the President or 
        Vice President regularly conducts official business, which 
        shall--
                    (A) include the name of each visitor, the name of 
                each individual with whom the visitor met, and the 
                purpose of the visit; and
                    (B) shall be updated every 30 days.
            (2) The annual salary of each White House employee, which 
        shall be updated quarterly.
            (3) The most recent financial disclosure statement for each 
        White House employee filed pursuant to the Ethics in Government 
        Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), which shall be updated annually.
    (b) Exceptions.--Except as provided in subsection (c)(3), the 
requirement described in subsection (a) does not apply to any visitor 
record that relates to--
            (1) the social security number, taxpayer identification 
        number, birth date, home address, or personal phone number of 
        an individual, the name of an individual who is less than 18 
        years old, or a financial account number;
            (2) a law enforcement concern;
            (3) a national security threat;
            (4) the personal safety of an employee of the Executive 
        Office of the President; or
            (5) personal visits that do not involve any official or 
        political business.
    (c) Records Withheld.--With respect to a visitor record excepted 
under subsection (b), the Executive Office of the President shall--
            (1) disclose the number of records withheld every 30 days;
            (2) post any such excepted record on the website described 
        under subsection (a) if the Executive Office of the President 
        determines that the record is no longer subject to an exception 
        described in subsection (b); and
            (3) notwithstanding subsection (b), post any reasonably 
        segregable portion that is not covered by an exception 
        described in subsection (b) of any such excepted record on the 
        website described under subsection (a).
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