White House Accountability for Language Diversity Act

White House Accountability for Language Diversity Act

This bill requires the White House and each federal agency to establish and maintain a Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese language version of its official website. Any such website may only include official content and may not include links to other Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, or Vietnamese websites that are not official content.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1852 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1852

   To require the White House and each agency to provide an official 
  website in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2017

     Mr. Correa (for himself, Mr. O'Halleran, Ms. Velazquez, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Serrano, Mr. 
   Cardenas, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Titus, Mr. Foster, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. 
 Kihuen, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. 
 Bass, Mr. Takano, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. 
 Ruiz, Mr. Schrader, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. 
     Grijalva, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Huffman, and Ms. Blunt Rochester) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the White House and each agency to provide an official 
  website in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese, 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 Accountability for 
Language Diversity Act''.

SEC. 2. SPANISH, CHINESE, TAGALOG, AND VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE WEBSITES 
              REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the White House and the head of each agency 
shall establish a Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese language 
version of the official website for the White House and that agency. 
Any such website may only include official content and may not include 
links to other Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, or Vietnamese (as applicable) 
websites that are not official content.
    (b) Link on Main Page.--A link to the website required under 
subsection (a) shall be easily accessible and in plain view on the main 
page of the English version of the White House and agency website.
    (c) Maintenance of Website.--The President and the head of each 
agency shall maintain and update the website required under subsection 
(a) on a regular basis.
    (d) Agency Defined.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given that 
term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
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