TITLE VI—EXECUTIVE BRANCH TRANSPARENCYSubtitle A—Public Availability Of Information
Sec. 601. Requirement for disclosure of Federal sponsorship of all Federal advertising or other communications.
Sec. 602. Improving access to influential executive branch official’s visitor access records.
Sec. 603. Public availability of budget justifications and appropriation requests.
Sec. 604. Improving rulemaking disclosure for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Sec. 605. Improving registration information from agents of foreign principals.
Sec. 606. Agency defined.
Sec. 607. Government-wide entity identifier.
Sec. 608. Grants transparency requirements.
(a) Requirement.—Except as provided for in subsection (b), each advertisement or other communication paid for by an agency, either directly or through a contract awarded by the agency, shall include a prominent notice informing the target audience that the advertisement or other communication is paid for by that agency.
(b) Exceptions.—The requirement in subsection (a) shall not apply to an advertisement or other communication—
(1) that is 200 characters or less; or
(2) that is distributed through a short message service.
(c) Advertisement Or Other Communications Defined.—In this section, the term “advertisement or other communication” includes—
(1) an advertisement disseminated in any form, including print or by any electronic means; and
(2) a communication by an individual in any form, including speech, print, or by any electronic means.
Budgets and Budget justification
SEC. 603. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS AND APPROPRIATION REQUESTS.
(a) In General.—Section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended to read as follows:
“SEC. 3. FULL DISCLOSURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.
“(a) In General.—Not less frequently than monthly when practicable, and in any event not less frequently than quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director and, with respect to information described in subsection (b)(2), the head of the applicable Federal agency) shall ensure that updated information with respect to the information described in subsection (b) is posted on the website established under section 2.
“(b) Information To Be Posted.—
“(1) FUNDS.—For any funds made available to or expended by a Federal agency or component of a Federal agency, the information to be posted shall include—
“(A) for each appropriations account, including an expired or unexpired appropriations account, the amount—
“(i) of budget authority appropriated;
“(ii) that is obligated;
“(iii) of unobligated balances; and
“(iv) of any other budgetary resources;
“(B) from which accounts and in what amount—
“(i) appropriations are obligated for each program activity; and
“(ii) outlays are made for each program activity;
“(C) from which accounts and in what amount—
“(i) appropriations are obligated for each object class; and
“(ii) outlays are made for each object class; and
“(D) for each program activity, the amount—
“(i) obligated for each object class; and
“(ii) of outlays made for each object class.
“(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.—
“(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph—
“(i) the term ‘agency’ has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 31, United States Code; and
“(ii) the term ‘budget justification materials’ means the annual budget justification materials of an agency that are submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the agency, in conjunction with the budget of the United States Government submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, but does not include budget justification materials that are classified.
“(B) INFORMATION.—The information to be posted shall include the budget justification materials of each agency—
“(i) for the second fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and each fiscal year thereafter; and
“(ii) to the extent practicable, that were released for any fiscal year before the date of enactment of this paragraph.
“(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification materials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)—
“(i) in an open format machine readable and text searchable;
“(ii) in a manner that enables users to download individual reports, download all reports in bulk, and download in bulk the results of a search, to the extent practicable; and
“(iii) in a structured data format, to the extent practicable.
“(D) DEADLINE.—The budget justification materials required to be posted under subparagraph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 weeks after the date on which the budget justification materials are first submitted to Congress.
SEC. 604. IMPROVING RULEMAKING DISCLOSURE FOR THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS.
(a) Inclusion In The Rulemaking Docket Of Documents And Communications Related To The Implementation Of Centralized Regulatory Review.—As soon as practicable, and not later than 15 days after the conclusion of centralized regulatory review for a draft proposed or draft final rule, the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shall include in the rulemaking docket the following:
(1) A copy of the draft proposed or draft final rule and supporting analyses submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review.
(2) A copy of the draft proposed or draft final rule that incorporates substantive changes, if any, made to the rule as part of implementing centralized regulatory review.
(3) A document describing in a complete, clear, and simple manner all substantive changes made by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to the draft proposed or draft final rule submitted by the agency to Office for review.
(4) A copy of all documents and written communications (including all electronic mail and electronic mail file attachments), and a summary of all oral communications (including phone calls, phone conferences, and meetings), exchanged as part of the implementation of the centralized regulatory review between or among any of the following:
(A) The agency responsible for the rule.
(B) The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
(C) Any other office or entity within the Executive Office of the President.
(D) An agency that is not the agency responsible for the rule.
(E) An individual who is not employed by—
(i) the executive branch of the Federal Government; or
(ii) an agency that is not the agency responsible for the rule.
(b) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) CENTRALIZED REGULATORY REVIEW.—The term “centralized regulatory review” means the institutional process of Presidential oversight of individual agency rules governed by Executive Order 12866 (58 Fed. Reg. 51735; relating to regulatory planning and review), or any successor to such Executive order.
(2) RULE.—The term “rule” has the meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
(c) Rule Of Construction.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt or displace the disclosure requirements under any other provision of law affecting administrative procedure, if such requirements are not inconsistent with the requirements of this section.
(c) Publication Of Information Categorized Using Government-Wide Entity Identifier.—Each agency shall, to the extent practicable, publish all public regulatory, procurement, assistance, and other reported information categorized using the unique entity identifier required under this section.
“CHAPTER 74—GRANTS TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENTS
“Sec.
“7401. Definitions.
“7402. Pre-award evaluation requirements.
“7403. Website relating to Federal grants.
“7404. Postdecision explanation for failed applicants.
“7405. Inspector General review of peer review process.
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