Transparent Leadership Act of 2022

Transparent Leadership Act of 2022

This bill requires the publication of schedules and speeches for the heads of executive branch agencies.

Specifically, the bill requires each agency to make available for public inspection in an electronic format within a specified time frame

• a copy of each speech given after this bill's enactment by the head of the agency acting in an official capacity, and
• a document disclosing a meeting between an agency head acting in such capacity and a person not employed by the agency.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8070 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8070

  To amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code, to require the 
public availability of certain information relating to certain speeches 
     and meetings of the heads of agencies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2022

  Mr. Beyer (for himself and Mr. Roy) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code, to require the 
public availability of certain information relating to certain speeches 
     and meetings of the heads of agencies, 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 ``Transparent Leadership Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO CERTAIN 
              SPEECHES AND MEETINGS OF HEADS OF AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 552 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraph (D) and (E) as 
                subparagraph (F) and (G), respectively;
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                following:
            ``(D) a copy of each speech given after the date of the 
        enactment of this subparagraph by the head of the agency acting 
        in an official capacity;
            ``(E) a document disclosing any meeting that occurs after 
        the date of the enactment of this subparagraph between the head 
        of the agency acting in an official capacity and a person not 
        employed by the agency;''; and
                    (C) in the flush left text by inserting after 
                ``electronic means.'' the following: ``A copy of a 
                speech required to be made available under subparagraph 
                (D) shall be made available not later than 30 days, but 
                not earlier than 14 days, after the date on which such 
                speech is given. A document disclosing a meeting 
                required to be made available under subparagraph (E) 
                shall be made available not later than 30 days, but not 
                earlier than 14 days, after the date on which such 
                meeting occurs.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) `speech' means a formal address delivered either 
        virtually or in-person to a group of individuals (other than a 
        group of individuals employed by the agency).
    (b) Technical Amendments.--Section 552(a) of title 5, United States 
Code, is further amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), in the flush left text--
                    (A) by striking ``subparagraph (D)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (F)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``subparagraph (E)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (G)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``subparagraph (E)'' 
        and inserting ``subparagraph (G)''.
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