Stop Padding Presidential Pockets Act

Bill: 116-hr-5131
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2019-11-15
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Transportation costs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Stop Padding Presidential Pockets Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires anyone who receives Secret Service protection and travels in furtherance of the business interests or to the financial benefit of the President to reimburse the Treasury for costs incurred by the government pertaining to that travel, including for the provision of Secret Service protection.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5131 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 15, 2019 Mrs. Watson Coleman (for herself and Ms. Lee of California ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform , and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To require reimbursement for costs associated with Presidential travel, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Padding Presidential Pockets Act . 2. Reimbursement required Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of a person whom 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 domestically or internationally in furtherance of the business interests of an entity owned by or controlled by the President of the United States, or from which the President of the United States receives any financial benefit, that person shall reimburse to the Treasury— (1) amount expended by the United States Secret Service for the provision of such protection; and (2) any amount expended for other costs incurred by the Government pertaining to that travel.