MAR-A-LAGO Act

Bill: 116-hr-1736
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2019-03-13
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Government information and archives

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-03-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act or the MAR-A-LAGO Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the President to establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains records of</p> <ul> <li>the name of each visitor at the White House, residence of the Vice-President, or any other location at which the President or Vice President regularly conducts official business (covered location);</li> <li>the name of each individual with whom the visitor met at the covered location; and </li> <li>the purpose of the visit. </li> </ul> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1736 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. Velázquez , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Soto , Mr. Veasey , Mr. Luján , 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 A BILL To require the disclosure of certain visitor access records.

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 . 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.