Access to White House Visitor Logs Act

Bill: 117-hr-3118
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2021-05-11
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: 2021-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Access to White House Visitor Logs Act</strong></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, the residence of the Vice President, or any other location at which the President or Vice President regularly conducts official business;</li> <li>the name of each individual with whom the visitor met; 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. </p> <p>For a particularly sensitive meeting, the President shall (1) include in the database the number of visitors, and (2) post the applicable records in the database when their release is no longer sensitive. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3118 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 11, 2021 Mr. Quigley 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 Access to White House Visitor Logs 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.