Title: To promote accountability and transparency in future executive orders.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires the President to provide Congress with certain information at least 30 days before issuing an executive order related to abortion.
Before issuing an abortion-related executive order, the President shall provide Congress with (1) the executive order text, (2) a list of the federal laws affected, (3) information about how the President is working within the parameters of federal law and the Constitution, (4) information about how the executive order will be accomplished, and (5) a list of all the individuals and entities that the President engaged with before issuing the order.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 714 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 714

 To promote accountability and transparency in future executive orders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2021

   Mr. Mann introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To promote accountability and transparency in future executive orders.

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

SECTION 1. NOTIFICATION RESPECTING CERTAIN EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days before issuing a qualifying 
executive order, the President shall transmit to the Congress, and make 
publicly available, a notification with respect to such executive 
order. Such notification shall contain--
            (1) the text of the executive order;
            (2) the Federal law or laws affected by the executive order 
        that is the subject of the notification;
            (3) how the President is working within the parameters 
        specified in Federal law and the Constitution;
            (4) the means by which the executive order will be 
        accomplished, including through any related Federal agencies or 
        departments; and
            (5) a comprehensive list of organizations, businesses, and 
        other parties or entities the President, or the President's 
        designee, engaged with prior to the issuance of such executive 
        order.
    (b) Reports.--Not later than 6 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 12 months thereafter, the President 
shall submit to the Congress a report on the outcome of each qualifying 
executive order issued during the period covered by the report.
    (c) Qualifying Executive Order.--The term ``qualifying executive 
order'' means any executive order (including an executive order that 
revokes or nullifies a previous executive order) issued on or after 
January 20, 2021, relating to abortion, including the prohibition on 
the use of Federal funds for abortions, as specified in sections 506 
and 507 of division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 
(Public Law 116-260) (commonly referred to as the ``Hyde amendment''), 
and the right to life guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the 
Constitution.
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