H.R. 1736: MAR-A-LAGO Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-03-13 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

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Where it came from: introduced 2019-03-13 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

MAR-A-LAGO Act

Plain summary

Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act or the MAR-A-LAGO Act This bill directs the President to establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains records of 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); the name of each individual with whom the visitor met at the covered location; and the purpose of the visit. 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. 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.

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Official text

MAR-A-LAGO Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · 33 cosponsors

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Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Bill Foster (D-IL), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Sean Casten (D-IL), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Darren Soto (D-FL), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), André Carson (D-IN)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] reported raising $998,074 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr1736.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>

Record fed-us-cong116-hr1736 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116